Small Business Boomers

Many small businesses consist of some type of handcraft and those on Etsy.com all have a connection with crafts.  Here’s a place for small and home businesses, as well as the hobbyist, to promote and sell their wares.
Some may start out here and, like Keara Sexton, develop a small business, OAK,  on Newbury Street in Boston.  Although Keara isn’t a boomer, you can learn from her.  Her mom, Karen, a small business owner, in Nashua, NH, helped Keara start her business, and now is learning from her daughter about social media and marketing in a techie world.
To learn more about Keara and Karen’s …read more

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The winner in a minute, but first, my observations:
I was overwhelmed by the number of people who have great creative ideas and a desire to express those ideas.
For example: When I got divorced, my ex burned all of my poetry (along with other things). I am just now getting the creativity flowing again. This would help me gain that once again.
I have about a dozen suspense novels and a great screenplay rattling around in my brain…..I’m always being told that I “should write a book”……perhaps I should!!
(I know the feeling – I have a fiction book and …read more

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Children are fantastically creative because they don’t know they aren’t.  Adults are not creative because they know they are not.
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If you want to create, what’s stopping you?  I have some inspiration for you, in a book by an author named Brenda Ueland.  You can win this book by responding with a comment to my Contest Post (click HERE).
Today is the last day.  I will accept your comments until midnight.  Then I’ll use the random number generator to select a winner, who will receive Brenda Ueland’s wonderful book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, …read more

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The Boomer Creativity Contest has generated many great ideas – I’m motivated just reading them and I wish all of you could win!
There is still time to enter – the contest runs through Tuesday (October 7th).  Just go to my Contest Post and tell me what you would like to create.
Some more inspiration from Brenda Ueland:
“…that creative power is in all of you if you give it just a little time; if you believe in it a little bit and watch it come quietly into you; if you do not keep it out by always hurrying …read more

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In one of my journeys around the Internet I found a writer named Brenda Ueland.  She was born in 1891, died in 1985, lived in Minnesota, was married 4 times, and wrote a wonderful book titled:
If you want to write: A book about art, independence, and spirit
Ueland talks about writing, but she is really talking about any creative process – painting, sewing, quilting, sculpting, designing, you name it.  I found her book extremely inspirational.  For example, here is an excerpt:
“I have established that you should work from now on until you die, with real love and imagination and intelligence, …read more

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I found what is probably the last interview done with George Carlin, for Psychology Today.  In the article, he talks about the creative process, how he feels like an observer of the human species but not really human himself, how he feels about foul language, and other fascinating subjects.  It’s worth reading in full.
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