Does Education Kill Creativity?
Is education designed to limit our growth and control the ability to expand the minds of our youth? This is something I personally felt during my years in the institution of elementary to higher learning... yet it wasn't until Sir Ken Robinson's fantastic Ted Talk...
Chickens are decent people
Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place, huh? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the...
Get Off The Porch and onto The Veranda
Live online Friday, 11am EST on The Colin Lively Show. If Hildamae had been your mother you would have learned when, why, and how a porch was a porch one day and a veranda the next. Well, lucky me (kinda), I am the one who got stuck with Hildamae... "Baby Boy, a porch...
Indigo Children View the World as Different
Indigo Children View the World as Different Indigo Children are highly intelligent children who are articulate and think of things that are interesting, engaging, creative at the rate of "ten per second." They are children who " toast marshmallows in the fire, while...
Jim Quick: Don’t Be Too Quick to Judge
Until a few weeks ago, being a 20-year-old college student, my music exposure tends not to drift beyond the phenomena that are Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. I had never even heard of Carolina Beach Music and figured it was something my parents would dance to when they go...
This Week on BROADSIDED – Voter Suppression Laws and Are Corporations People?
There are two burning issues threatening Democracy today: corporate personhood and voter suppression - and we're going to discuss both of those issues this week on BROADSIDED. With the passage of Citizens United, the floodgates of secret campaign money have opened up...
When Lightening Strikes Four Times- Tap Dance As Fast As You Can
Life is funny. My daughter and I have worked on my writing and her acting careers diligently for the past almost nine years now. Just trying to get our work out there. Working 40 hours a week. Writing after work. Acting and keeping a full time job. Writing,...
(Re)Invoking the Ocean of Creativity: My 5 Steps
Lately the rapids of my creative waters have softened... That wonderful body of imagination that usually overflows and feels as though it may drown me in a wealth of words and concepts has become more of a creek… gently flowing through my mind, every so often brushing...
Global Health Threats: Is Contagion a Reality?
Meningoencephalitis Virus One (MEV-1) is a highly contagious and lethal virus that could kill millions of people globally. Luckily, this particular disease is fictional and was made up for the plot of the 2011 film Contagion. However, Senior Fellow for Global Health...