One of the seven goals on my Infinite Master To Do List is Creativity.  I wish to be creative every day.  I have loved to write ever since I discovered my talent for writing at the age of eleven.  I mastered almost every style of writing I've tried since then, including various styles of poetry.  I've kept a journal since 1997 and a blog (friends only) since 2004.  I'm trying to write a fantasy novel series set in Hirapis, a land that I created. 

I also like to craft.  I learned to sew in Girl Scouts as a child, and my mother taught me how to latchhook.  After my last seizure in 1995 (I have epilepsy), I started candlemaking.  In 2007 when I finished organizing my home office (for the first time), I found a crochet hook given to me by a distant cousin when I was a child.  I decided to try my hand at crocheting again, but it's a lot harder than it looks, so I returned to latchhook.

SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy), the talented artist and author, encourages her fans and readers to live their creative dream lives.  My creative dream life would be where my writing and my business are so successful that I can quit my day job and write and craft for a living. 

When we bought our current house in 2005, I hoped to live that dream in earnest, but reality keeps getting in the way.  I had some really bad years in 2006 (the deaths of my cats Queen Goober and Princess Lunch) and 2007 (the deaths of my parents after long illnesses).  I spent 2008 and 2009 battling depression and anxiety stemming from the aforementioned losses, so I'm determined to make 2010 the year that I do something to make my creative dreams come true.  In 2009, I organized my home office so it's functional, including filing over thirty years of "stuff" - most to be burned.  Updating my websites is another step toward the goal of creativity.

-Lori