Posted in Creativity, Low Tech, tagged creative outlets, handiwork, hurdy-gurdy, luthier, nerdy-gurdy, woodwork on 03 Jun 2021| 5 Comments »
I develop software for my living, so all day I’m steeped in high-tech endeavors: data analysis, solution design, use cases, text-based and GUI-assisted coding, iterative testing, etc.
When it comes to actually living, though, I prefer low-tech activities, such as gardening, reading, writing, and working with wood.
But as much as I love low-tech projects, I am not above getting some high-tech assistance, especially when a project is all very new to me.
Enter: the Nerdy Gurdy.
Posted in Gaming, tagged board games, creative outlets, game design on 03 Jan 2020| 2 Comments »
The holidays are over and my brain is filled with rants—how to mount a meaningful boycott, and the ramifications of foreign policy when performed by amateurs, to name two—but each time I started a post on one of them I stopped myself. I’m pretty sure regular readers don’t want to hear about that—not from me, anyway—so I’m moving on to something completely different.
Over the holiday break, my neighbor and I did a thing.
We made a game. (more…)
Posted in Creativity, tagged coloring for adults, creative outlets, meditation, paint by numbers on 23 Feb 2018| 2 Comments »
A year or so ago, like many other stressed-out adults searching for a bubble of calm in a turbulent world, I turned to a solution that was trending through social media: coloring. It was a fairly good solution, too. Coloring, for however long I chose to enjoy it, provided a period of quiet meditation combined with guided creativity. After a tempestuous day of corporate politics and political upheaval, I could look forward to spending an hour, head down, blending colors across mandalas and designs with whatever palette suited my whim. I could listen to music or to the birds outside in the wisteria or to the simple, basic sound of pencil and paper. It was a refuge, a Fortress of Coloring Solitude.
But when my father died, I stopped. (more…)
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