March Theme:

When did you know that you were creative and how did it impact how your chose to live?

Barbara Ehrentreu — I realized I was able to write much more easily than speak what I was thinking. So I would write a poem to my husband when I needed to let him know my feelings. It worked to get him to understand me. So I continued to write my feelings about everything.  For my Masters I chose Reading and Writing to help children learn to read and have a way of expressing their feelings. I studied writing and decided to become an author.

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Cathy Horn — Growing up, I never thought of myself as creative. It turns out, all those diary entries and love-sick poems were the foundation of future creative endeavors.

I dabbled in art, played a little tennis and skied occasionally. I loved to sing too. But as far as engaging in anything truly creative, something formed from an original idea born in my imagination, I didn’t think I had that in me.

Winning Honorable Mention in a Writer’s Digest Competition in 1997, I recognized and rejoiced in the knowledge that I had become a creative woman.

The way my creativity impacted how I chose to live has been embrace it, develop it, and finally celebrate it, when Taking a Ride on Butterfly Wings was published in 2024.  A second children’s book is in-progress.

Next up – Pandemic Pondering: A Poetry Collection to be published by PWP later this year.

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Doris Mady – In elementary school I was always being asked to draw specific maps for geography lessons or letters for the marque for a school play. I figured “something” must be there. I wanted this ability to be a full-time thing so I majored in art all thru school.

April Theme:

What is your antidote for creative burnout?

It’s about the search and having something to say, discovering your own individual voice. It comes from deep within. ~ Anne Packard.