KIMBERLY PAIGE

Our imagination is one of the most powerful creative tools that we can access. Imagination is something that we intuitively tap into as children. Do you remember what it was like to be a kid? When the dining room table fort became a spaceship, and your bike was race car, and you would create and act out elaborate stories from different times and different places? Most kids have vivid imaginations that allow them to live in a world of possibilities. As we get older, creating a

Have you heard of the concept of learned helplessness? Learned helplessness occurs when a person believes that they have no control over their life and are unable to change it, and so eventually they give up and stop trying to altogether. Learned helplessness occurs after someone has been in a situation which they legitimately cannot control (frequently in childhood), but the helplessness becomes so deeply ingrained that later in life they do not exercise their ability to cha

One of my favorite running trails runs along the Rogue River through a state park. The other day while I was out on the trail there was a disk golf tournament going on while I was running. (Disk golf is a thing in Oregon, y'all). You could see the teams, almost all men, spread out all across the park. At one point there was a team of about 7 guys lined up on either side of the trail. I don't know what they were doing—waiting for their turn? plotting their disk golf strategy?—