Sometimes the creative juices seem to be frozen solid or perhaps even dried up completely. When you have piles of assignments ...

Question: We live in a new home with a nice landscape, but it does not have any spring flowering bulbs. Could you give us some ideas on where and how to add bulbs to our landscape? Answer: Spring ...

Is there a way to massage inspiration? Alcohol (or worse) may have worked in past years, but what drives modern creative thinking? Jennifer Chan finds out. Ask any professional what the key is to ...

While I’m perpetually enamored with the creative journey and ideas, I’ve always been fascinated by the neurological and cognitive processes that underpin our ability to develop novel solutions. Sure, ...

Seeing light bulbs might foster bright ideas, scientists now find. The concept that reaching an insight is much like shining a light into a dark place goes back to at least Plato. It was this ...

We think of metaphors as the result of creativity. We assume Macbeth said, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,” after Shakespeare got his genius ...