Creative Blogs

Browse the best creative blogs from independent writers on BlogRolly.

• The Mirror Is Never Just a Mirror — How mirror placement changes what you see in a room, with practical considerations for reflection, scale, sightlines, li
• The Brass Peacock Fireplace Screen: What to Look for Before You Buy — A closer look at vintage brass peacock fireplace screens, including construction, condition, decorative details, and wha
• 1980s Postmodern Glam Decor Ideas for a Black Lacquer Bathroom — Ideas for building a 1980s postmodern glam interior with black lacquer, brass, geometric forms, sculptural objects, and
• The Room With No Modern World in It — An exploration of creating an interior that feels removed from the modern world through antique furniture, old materials
• Antique Bedroom Ideas: A Dressing Spot Without a Vanity — How to create a bedroom dressing spot without a traditional vanity, using an antique chair, nesting tables, lighting, mi
• Home Library Ideas: How to Style a Bookshelf That Feels Collected — How to style a home library with books, brass objects, sculpture, plants, and varied scale to create shelves that feel c
• Moody Entryway Decor Ideas: What a Sag Harbor Doorway Gets Right — A Sag Harbor doorway shows how black lacquer, weathered wrought iron, unusual hardware, and restraint can give an entryw
• A Room That No Longer Exists — A personal essay about inherited antiques, family memory, and how ordinary objects can carry the atmosphere of rooms and
• Gallery Walls: How to Build One That Looks Collected — A practical guide to building a gallery wall that feels collected over time, using subject, material, spacing, anchor pi
• What musical instrument and vocal sounds did the Ancient Egyptian Healers use and why? The Sistrum and Vowel Sound Chants. — Curious how ancient Egyptians healed with sound? In this post I recount studying with John Stuart Reid and explain how t
• Fun Sound Healing Therapy Science Facts. The Law of Sympathetic Resonance — Ever noticed how clocks fall into step? In this post I unpack sound healing therapy science facts and the Law of Sympath
• What is the most healing instrument? The Voice! — Your voice is the most healing instrument. Once told I could not sing, I now teach vowel sound vocal toning and simple v
• Why is the Didgeridoo so special to the Aboriginal people of Australia? Why is it a Favorite Sound Bath Instrument and Can it Heal? — Ever wondered why the didgeridoo or yidaki is a go to sound bath healing instrument? I walk through its low frequency vi
• Seven-Crystal Bowl Chakra Set. Myths, Marketing, and the Truth About Sound Healing. Do You Really Need a Seven-Bowl Chakra Set? — Curious if a seven-crystal bowl chakra set is necessary? I debunk that marketing myth in this sound healing guide, unpac
• Wildflowers — Craving a sexy, slow-burn escape? I wrote Wildflowers, an erotic short story for my sex coaching blog about Jayne’s solo
• Lusty Night Skies — A stolen bottle of vodka at JFK sparks a lusty weekend in Manchester. I spin a steamy erotic short story called Lusty Ni
• He’s out of my league (and other lies I tell myself) — Ever thought you were too fat to be wanted? I recount 2017 when I navigated four lovers, body dysmorphia and fat shaming
• A guide to the art of creative writing — Struggling with writer's block? This creative writing guide shares the exact routine I use, reading with intent, watchin
• There’s Always Room for Quality — Ever wondered if the world is too crowded for your ideas? James Clear's line, there's always room for quality, stuck wit
• Reviving written comedy in the digital age — Is written comedy a dying art? Are our attention spans too short to appreciate a good setup or rant anymore?
• Are rants inherently negative? That depends. Are you a baby? — People need ranters and comedians to remind them that things aren't perfect. George Carlin is a good example. I'm a les
• 7 things I’ll die mad about — 7 things that still tick me off at 48.
• What do you do when you’ve forgotten how to write? — Ever woken up and forgotten how to write? I map out that weird writer's block, drafts that all feel rubbish, the panic o
• Man was Made to Mourn – Robert Burns — On Burns Night I've posted the full text of Robert Burns' "Man was Made to Mourn", a bleak and beautiful poem with brief
• Crows in Spring – John Clare — A spring crow tumbles through old trees, and this post presents John Clare's "Crows in Spring" with the full poem, a pho
• What a difference a day makes… — What a difference a literal day makes....
• Why Do I Like What I Like? — Why do certain songs hit me so hard? I trace novelty, surprise and creativity to explain why The Preatures' Is This How
• An Awesome Wave of New Music — Music is my addiction, so I catalog recent Amazon MP3 purchases and what I added to my Amazon Cloud. My February 2013 ne
• Center Of It All — New album alert, Center Of It All is finally out and ready to download on CD Baby and stream on Spotify, Apple Music and
• Finding My Muse (Score) — Surprise find: switching from Sonar to Studio One pulled me into music notation. After a Presonus Black Friday deal I bo
• Mendelssohn & Monet — What makes Mendelssohn sound like Tuscany? I rediscovered free music notation software MuseScore 4, loaded a shared scor
• A Plea for Civility — Ever been jolted awake by a dream that needed an apology? In this playful plea for civility in public I apologize to an
• Luncheon — What happens when you have lunch with Frances Bean Cobain? In a letter to Frances Bean Cobain I recount a confrontationa
• Dear Mosquito — One tiny mosquito ruined my night and inspired this strange, funny essay. I narrate the sleep interrupted by mosquito me
• A Haunting — A dream returned my father to the driveway in a silver 1987 Camry beneath a motion-sensor spotlight. I write about a hau
• Buh-bye, Spotify — Enough was enough. I quit Spotify at the end of 2024 after learning they commission stock music for playlist priority an
• Heard in the delivery room — Ever wondered what actually gets played in the delivery room? My Music League round asked for songs from your birth year
• Driving songs — Nothing beats a perfect driving playlist on a sunlit highway. In this Music League round we each submitted two driving s
• At bat — Want stadium-ready walk-up song ideas that aren't just jock jams? In this Music League at bat post I pick Black Sabbath'
• Friends of Jerry — Who knew a Grateful Dead cover band would pull me to Ukie Club? Friends of Jerry at Ukie Club impressed with over two ho
• Forever, I’ve Been Being Born — Missed a comeback? I only found Jesse Sykes' new album months late. After 14 years her collaboration with Phil Wandscher
• The best work he had ever done — Staying inside, twilight drifts and the new year feels on hold. Reading Derek Jarman final journals, Smiling in Slow Mot
• Everything you really need, and no more — Could a city be a good hotel room, offering everything you really need and no more? I found Ian Nairn's lines in a photo
• Empty Rooms — Walking through empty rooms felt strange and worth photographing. I gathered images of empty rooms and vintage interiors
• Picturesque imaginings — A window can blur time. In this post I wander through William Henry Fox Talbot's 1843 stay in Rouen and why he photograp
• Bad photographs from an overcast afternoon — Caught in an overcast afternoon, a bus delay became a tiny photo session with the Nomo Cam app. I stuck to a free dispos
• There is Love — A simple love poem that feels like an old friend. This post features my poem There Is a Love from A Particle of You, the
• We Stand — A quiet kitchen moment becomes an entire world. My short poem We stand, from Backyards (June 2023), gathers laughter in
• Do You Feel It Too? — A whisper in the wind sparked a short poem about moonlight, tides and a rising spiritual pulse. In Do You Feel It Too? I
• Truth be told, we never loved you... — What happens when the Charlottetown Festival cuts six orchestra jobs from Anne of Green Gables The Musical? I argue the