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Creativity can be expressed in many different ways. Often, when we think of someone who is creative we have an image in our heads of someone painting, composing music, or writing poetry. Of course there are far more ways that we express our creativity. Preparing food, decorating, even applying make up may be considered creative. Personally, I have never been one for artistic ventures, including making food look pretty (for an example of my horrendous cake decorating skills, see my Flourless Raspberry Chocolate Cake recipe). The easiest way for me to express my creativity is through words. Not poetry, per se (I think I’ve written like one poem in my entire life – outside of school), but rather through prose. Which is why having a personal blog is so appealing to me. Especially one that allows me to post on such a broad range of topics.

… that is, if I had more time to post. Being in grad school is especially rough on one’s creativity. I even have a blog for my school assignments to which I am required to post weekly (If you’d like to check it out, Click Here). Truthfully, I use up so much of the creativity in my assignments, there’s often nothing left to post for pleasure.

I like to use the fountain example. Consider a fountain overflowing with creativity. Each time I need to write something for school, I need to take some water from the fountain. Taking a bit here and there is no problem, but if I take too much, the fountain is dry and needs some time to refill. Which is generally the weekly situation. By the time it’s refilled, there are assignments that need doing.

I will say that it is true, at least for me, that the more I write, the easier it comes. But the Library Science program is somewhat infamous for working its students into the ground with assignments. And to be fair, taking the maximum allotted classes doesn’t really do me any favours. Five classes keeps me busy, but this semester is even more work intensive than it was for the other two. What I mean is, for my first and second semester I had approximately 34 assignments to do in a 13 week period (nearly all in the form of writing), but this semester I have 49. BRUTAL.

But don’t worry, I’m not complaining. This is something I can totally do, because I’ve essentially become a library assignment machine. (For how long could I do it? I’m not sure if I could do an additional 12 months of this!) But I just wish to explain as to why things are so quiet on the blog.

I frequently have wonderful ideas (I keep a stickie on my desktop for them), but they must remain just as ideas. For Now.

xoxo Miranda


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