creativity

Good guilt

by rosedeniz October 13, 2010 creativity
Thumbnail image for Good guilt

Tweet “I’m doing research,” I say, and huddle in the corner cloaked in my Uzbek suzani to watch Pretty Little Liars. In September it was Glee. I had just finished a first draft of a young adult novel, and I celebrated with three days of impassioned singing and crying (every time I’d sing along, the […]

Read more here →

What’s your {life} color palette?

by rosedeniz August 25, 2010 creativity

Tweet Hair dye packaging. Quilting fabric. Cosmetic color forecasts. Paint store swatches. Just a few of my favorite things. I like how a few smart words dressed up in the right clothes can make or break a deal. I love how word and image combined bring out delicious, unexpected combinations. I love embellished details and […]

Read more here →

Monsters, irascible inner critics, and Merilee

by rosedeniz August 19, 2010 creativity

Tweet “Hybrids are used to strengthen the homogeneous. Grafting different orchids together makes flowers nobody has ever seen before. Cross-pollinating makes hardier fruits and vegetables. Hybrid cars are more energy efficient. Not one, or the other. Both. Conjoined. The hybrid/monster can be sensed even from the shadows. Poison Ivy left behind her traces of vanilla scent. The snakes […]

Read more here →

Five years in Turkey and Five Insights

by rosedeniz July 23, 2010 creativity

Tweet Vanity, Rose Deniz 2010 This post was originally going to be tips for traveling light – a global citizen mama carries a lot of stuff across the world, but there are other ways to travel light – starting with disrobing definition and adopting changes in perspective. Here are five insights that stem directly from […]

Read more here →

Half life

by rosedeniz April 27, 2010 art

Tweet I live a double life. Half of me is resident crumb-sweeper and bedtime storyteller of our family of four, while the other half is mentally miles away dreaming up projects, threading the needle of a story, and compulsively suggesting to Amazon that Penguin make The Poisoner’s Handbook available on the Kindle until it is. […]

Read more here →

On resurfacing

by rosedeniz April 7, 2010 creativity

Tweet Or: on having a sensitivity-challenged sensory system while traveling abroad with two children and one unabashedly devoted husband and father to said-children, now back home to the tune of jet lag and the search for foods easy-to-obtain in the US but missing from most grocery-store shelves in Turkey: bagels, Philadelphia cream cheese, unsweetened peanut […]

Read more here →

Poised to pause

by rosedeniz March 18, 2010 creativity

Tweet Like the Haley’s Comet of all Naps, holidays at Love, Rose seem 75 years apart. But it’s happening: I have a date with the beach, energetic recuperation, The Lives of Girls and Women waiting to be read, and sleep to catch up on. Things have felt edgy lately, brilliant and bright, full of promise, but […]

Read more here →

Verbal footprints

by rosedeniz March 4, 2010 Art is Dialogue

Tweet Home prints / photo by Rose Deniz Sezin described us as ‘intimate strangers,’ Anastasia a ‘carillon,’ each person’s comments creating a verbal percussion. The nine women who gathered on Sunday to participate in Dialogue2010 astounded me with their clarity of vision, their engagement with creativity, their willingness to bend and flex through identity and language […]

Read more here →

Silk Road Stories

by rosedeniz February 10, 2010 Art is Dialogue

Tweet Friendships made in just a few short hours. Life stories shared, professional commonalities discovered, mothering suggestions offered, all while eating some of the best Turkish food I’ve had in Turkey. The women I met from the Bursa International Women’s Association were French, Italian, German, Russian, American, and more. How were we able to relate to […]

Read more here →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →