Skeptophilia

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea .  The sea is the sea.  The old man is an old man...

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine, the wonderful author K. D. McCrite.  (Do yourself a favor and check ...

The word creativity  is strangely hard to define. What makes a work "creative?"  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  states t...

The flood of awful, outrage-inducing, and flat-out insane news lately has made it hard to focus on anything else. Just in the day prior to m...

All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem t...

My post yesterday, about how the profit motive in (and corporate control of) media has annihilated any hope of getting accurate representati...

Yesterday, I was discussing with a friend how important it is to find things that lift your spirit. The world has been replete with dismal ...

There's long been an association between creativity and mental illness.  Certainly there's plenty of anecdotal evidence -- people li...