by Uncustomary | Aug 7, 2012 | Creativity, Goals
One of my goals for 2012 was to make a blackout poem.A blackout poem is basically when you take pre-printed text from a book or newspaper and you scratch out all of the words you don’t want with a black marker. What you’re left with is what you want to...
by Uncustomary | Aug 6, 2012 | Creativity
#86 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to add food coloring to a meal. So I decided to add blue and red dye to my ice cream that had become soupy. Then I froze it. Then I ate it.FYI: if your ice cream is actually a brownie sundae, it’s likely that the...
by Uncustomary | Aug 3, 2012 | Celebration, Creativity
#55 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list is to celebrate “weird and unusual holidays”. Some people think that I just know about these awesome celebrations that aren’t pre-typed on your office desk calendar, but the truth is I have two go-to websites...
by Uncustomary | Jul 29, 2012 | Creativity, Goals
One of my next assignments in Finish This Book was to research neurobics. I really like the idea of increasing our brain activity and power by doing relatively simple things. Do the same thing, but with your non dominant hand. That simple. I’ve been thinking a...
by Uncustomary | Jul 27, 2012 | Creativity
One of the items on Michelle’s 25 Weeks Project was to tie a note to a balloon and then release it into the world. So obviously we decided we needed to do this together. On Wednesday I met her at the National Mall and we walked to the Smithsonian Institution,...
by Uncustomary | Jul 26, 2012 | Creativity
#38 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to “make up a story about people you see walking on the street”.Yesterday, Michelle and I went to DC and at the end of our adventure we sat on a bench on the mall and had a lot of people go by us. Some people were...