My Passion. Passion? What is Passion?

Contributed by Stephanie Goetsch — HerExchange.com, Founder & Editor I passionately love green tea in the morning, Dairy Queen Blizzards and fast-food.  I’m a passionate friend and daughter, dedicated and loyal.  I have been passionate about love, falling in...

An Artist For Our Times

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” ~Henry Ward Beecher  Whatever the medium, looking at what someone has created, poured their heart and soul into, has the power to elicit our deepest, if sometimes...

What’s Next?

Contributed by bturner@highlightsofchicago.com A few years ago I was deciding what I would like to do when I retired from my educational publishing job. One idea was to go back to school and the other idea was to volunteer at the Chicago History Museum. Little did I...

Discovering My Voice and My Creative Expression

Contributed by sheri@sheritherapist.com As a child I succumbed to elective mutism.  That and living in my head were responses to living in a household in which violence and other forms of insanity were a daily occurrence. The arts sustained me. My father was a painter...

Bringing Dreams to Life

Contributed by villagegirl92 I was born in Brooklyn, NY but moved to Florida shortly before my ninth birthday. In my forties, I moved to Manhattan for an amazing eleven years.  For one year, I lived near Gramercy Park, later I moved to mid-town, just blocks from Grand...