Water, Water Everywhere People who jump into organic gardening without any preparation often start off on the wrong foot by overwatering or not watering properly.
Urban Homesteading: Grow Your Own Sandwich You don't have to have a large garden spread to grow your own organic food. In fact, you can grow plenty of food to supplement your diet in a small space.
Bread from Your Garden? If you're interested in growing grain in your garden, a good book on the subject is "Homegrown Whole Grains" by Sara Pitzer (Storey Publishing, 2009, $14.95).
Fresh-Squeezed Style Keeping with the theme of the GOOD issue, I thought to go on the hunt for goods and pieces made by local artists and designers. Turns out, I didn't have to search very hard.
You, the Masterpiece Once they reach adulthood, people tend to think that they are either creative or not, left-brain or right-brain, and never shall the twain meet.
Brain Games: Elbie or Arbie? Often, people either think they're creative or they're not. And it is true that people tend to be more "left-brain" or "right-brain."
Learn to Be Inspired We live in a world where kids who can't sit still in class are labeled troublemakers or low-performers or even ADD. But maybe they're just kinesthetic learners: that is, they need to move around in order to soak up the …
A World-Class City If ... Creative Class" maven Richard Florida has ranked Jackson 75th on the creative-class scale (higher than Memphis and New Orleans!)
Creativity: A Secret to Getting Ahead Inventive thinking is prized now more than almost any other time in history. The creative class is on the rise and is an important emerging driver in the economy.
Channeling Your Creativity I can't say exactly when I stopped painting, drawing and attempting to write poetry. Somewhere between elementary school and college, life happened, and landing a job that paid the bills quietly snuck in and became priority over any and all …
Map It Out As a creative person, I know what it's like to thrive on flying by the seat of my pants and completing tasks without a structured plan to carry it out.
Time to Create So how to convince your right-brain, distinguished self to plan and get organized? You need to learn basic principles and then practice until it becomes second nature.
Art All AroundIf the red light on the corner of Pascagoula and State streets catches you while you're driving northbound on State Street, look to your left.
Outside the Political Box The "cultural creatives" movement is one attempt to reject the binary division in favor of a new, more enlightened political climate.
Epic Change"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."—Albert Einstein
Keeping with the theme of the GOOD issue, I thought to go on the hunt for goods and pieces made by local artists and designers. Turns out, I didn't have to search very hard.
Once they reach adulthood, people tend to think that they are either creative or not, left-brain or right-brain, and never shall the twain meet.
Often, people either think they're creative or they're not. And it is true that people tend to be more "left-brain" or "right-brain."
I can't say exactly when I stopped painting, drawing and attempting to write poetry. Somewhere between elementary school and college, life happened, and landing a job that paid the bills quietly snuck in and became priority over any and all …
As a creative person, I know what it's like to thrive on flying by the seat of my pants and completing tasks without a structured plan to carry it out.
So how to convince your right-brain, distinguished self to plan and get organized? You need to learn basic principles and then practice until it becomes second nature.