What Does Our Art Do for Ourselves and Others?
Last weekend, I visited the Revolutionary Vision: Group f/64 and Richard Misrach Photographs exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Par...
Author: sherilynlee
#The100Day Project…so far…
I will be one-third of the way through the #The100DayProject tomorrow. (Late to the party? Catch up here.) Yes, I’m building the muscle to listen – ...
Stop Wasting Time
If time is your writing problem, then stop wasting it. Hey, I get it. The world is INTERESTING. I too like shiny things and already have discovered far too many...
My World Still has Prince in it
I still haven’t read the obituaries — I am in first rate denial. So this week, I’m thinking what his career as an artist teaches me. Work quic...
#The100DayProject Starts Tuesday!
Do you need to jump start your creative practice? The 100 Day Project might be for you. What do you want to do? Cook? Make jewelry? Take a photo? Draw? Write a ...
It’s Not Just an Asian Thing: Why Calvin Trillin’s Poem Matters to All Writers
I am Japanese-American and Korean-American. I am not Chinese-American and I felt funny when I first read Calvin Trillin’s poem, Have They Run Out of Prov...
What AWP’s Bookfair Taught Me About Submission Guidelines: Getting Beyond “We’re Looking for Good Writing.”
When I learned two years ago that the 2016 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference was going to be in Los Angeles, many of my local and f...
What The Velvet Prison Taught Me About Making Space to Create
Back when I worked at The Really Big Company, my boss sent me to the corporate training center nicknamed “The Velvet Prison.” Imagine a US river win...
#EatCandy – “Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor” by Lynda Barry
When I was a kid, my elementary school had an art teacher for the entire campus. Once a week, my classmates and I walked across the playground to Mrs. Fullmer&#...
Happy Vernal Equinox!
I returned from Hawaii a few weeks ago wanting to reignite my blog but read this cookbook instead.