by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2014 | The Rest |
Has it happened to you: a restless night, spent tossing and turning, yielding good creative ideas? In a recent podcast, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels admitted that while under the stress of having to produce a topical weekly show he found that a lack of...
by Orna Ross | Nov 24, 2014 | Fiction |
The Irish Nobel-Laureate poet Willie Yeats was 23 years old in 1889, when Maud Gonne came calling to his house and, as he later put it, “the troubling of his life” began. Six feet tall, elegantly beautiful and passionately political, this British heiress turned...
by Orna Ross | Nov 11, 2014 | Fiction |
The more I circle the life and work of WB Yeats, the more I'm drawn to wondering about his mother, Susan Yeats, nee Pollexfen. In trying to understand her influence, at first I felt hampered by how little we know about her. As I read through the letters and...
by Orna Ross | Nov 6, 2014 | The Rest |
In Creativity is Forever, Gary Davis listed 22 characteristics that were most commonly found in creative people, some positive (curiosity, independent, risk-taking, high energy, emotional) and some negative (impulsive, hyperactive, argumentative). He found that many...
by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2014 | The Rest |
One of Amazon Kindle's least known features allows you to peek over the reader’s shoulder, to follow people of interest to you and see their Public Notes on what they're reading. And once you enable Kindle Public Notes for a particular book, then any of your followers...
by Orna Ross | Oct 20, 2014 | The Rest |
“We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. “There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically,...
by Orna Ross | Oct 17, 2014 | The Rest |
Until recently, it was commonly held that humankind acquired artistic skills and intellectual capabilities only when our ancestors departed Africa and arrived in Europe some 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. In recent years scientists have begun to question this. Ten years...