Topic Index
Book Reviews • Creativity • Fun and Misc. • Guest Posts • Hobbies • Homeschooling • Intensity • Emotional Intensity • Imaginative Intensity • Profiles of Intensity • Psychomotor Intensity • Introverts • July Intensity Project • Mindfulness • Parenting • Perfectionism • Personal Growth • Poetry • Writing
Book Reviews
- Bright, Talented & Black, by Joy Lawson Davis
- Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students, by Christine Fonseca
- How to Be a High School Superstar, by Cal Newport
Creativity
- The Balancing Act: Organizing Intensity and Creativity
- The Creative Home
- Do You Need More Complexity in Your Life?
- Do Your Dance Anyhow
- E. Paul Torrance’s Creative Manifesto
- Lessons from Precious: Intensity of the Imagination
- Parenting for Creative Synthesis
- Responding to Radical Ideas
- The Spork Exercise
- Yukking It Up for Creativity
- Winston Churchill, Joss Whedon, and the Creativity of Anxiety
Fun & Misc.
- 46 Things
- Animating Pink and Thinking About Time
- Battlestar Galactica Test for Giftedness
- Brontë Sisters Power Dolls and LEGO Star Wars Saga
- Coffee Break: McNulty Reads Austen
- Happy Franksgiving?
- In Sync for 2011
- LEGO Miller Park
- LEGO Movie Tributes
- LEGO Music Videos
- Leftovers and Earth Day TED Videos
- A Little Something
- Longfellow speaks, and you shall hear
- “The Lousy Cook”
- Jamie Oliver
- Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk
- My Mid-Life Brain on Twitter
- New Blog, Word Geeks, LEGOs, and The Big Bang Theory
- Remembering FDR: Our President Is Gone
- Resource Roundup for Young People
- Star Wars Service Announcement
- Stirring Up Some Words
- Weekend Reading: Creativity, Emotions, and Children’s Book Editors
- What’s Your Cheese?
- Where Thanks Are Due
- Ye Olde Friday Five: Best of the Bard
Guest Posts
- Dr. Joy L. Davis: On Writing Bright, Talented & Black
- Christine Fonseca
- Tania Pryputniewicz: “So You Say You’re a Poetry Editor…”
- Rebecca Rasmussen: The Real (Online) Me
- Dr. Deborah Ruf: Getting Her Wish to Work with Gifted Adults
Hobbies
- Blogging as a 21st Century Hobby
- Does Your Hobby Stress You Out?
- From Hobby to Career
- Hobbies and Hobby Horses
- Hobbies To Please the Senses
- My Mother’s Hobbies and Gifts
- What Were Your Childhood Hobbies?
- Your Passion: Hobby or Career?
Homeschooling Ideas and Resources
- Art for Your Sake
- Big Picture Thinking
- Film Study Ideas
- Homeschooling Resources
- Important Questions of Education
- The Intensity of Art
- Ken Robinson on Homeschooling
- Math and Science Links
- Multimedia Poetry
- My Top Ten Reasons for Homeschoooling
- National Engineers Week
- New Yorker Fiction Podcasts
- Podictionary
- Read the Complete Works
- Re-Reading
- Rowling’s Revisions
- Say “No” to Grades
- TED Talks
- What Did You Feel in School Today?
- What Is Your Mission Statement?
- Ye Olde Friday Five: Best of the Bard
- See also Parenting; Poetry; Writing
Intensity
- Being Too Much: The Upside of Being and Outsider
- Busy vs. Intensity
- Collapsed Intensity
- Examples of Everyday Intensity
- Intensity as Self-Determination
- Introverts, Intensity, and Phone Avoidance
- Is Your Intensity Out of Control?
- Meeting the Needs of Intense Grown-ups
- On Happiness and Intensity
- Perfectionism and Intensity
- Seeing Intensity in Others
- Welcome and Introduction
Intensity, Emotional
- Intense Feelings in Children
- Protect Your Sensitivity
- Weekend Reading: Creativity, Emotions, and Children’s Book Editors
- What Did You Feel in School Today?
Intensity, Imaginative
Intensity, Profiles of
- Bruce Springsteen: When Bosses Grow Up
- Cyndi Briggs
- Five Young People To Inspire You
- Jamie Oliver
- Jessica: For Learning Out Loud
- John Waters on Not Having To Fit In
- Judy Collins
- More Young People To Inspire You
- Oscar Micheaux
- Rosemary Wells
- Seeing Intensity in Others
- Temple Grandin
- Tom Haig
- Winston Churchill, Joss Whedon, and the Creativity of Anxiety
Intensity, Psychomotor
Introverts
- Are You Shy? Or Introverted?
- Changing How We Talk to Ourselves
- Coffee Break: Introverted Couples
- Malcolm Gladwell: Speaking as an Introvert
- Phone Avoidance
- Solitude and Writer Rats
July Intensity Project
- Day One: List Your Best Qualities…
- Day Two: Wonderfully Weird?
- Day Three: Got Personality?
- Day Four: Celebrate Your Way
- Day Five: Torrance’s Creative Manifesto
- Day Six: A Spork Divergent Thinking Exercise
- Day Seven: The Euphoric Rush of Everyday Life
- Day Eight: Intellectual Intensity
- Day Nine: Psychomotor Readiness
- Day Ten: The Delight of Beautiful Things (Sensual Excitability)
- Day 11: Our Precious Imagination
- Day 12: The Key of Emotional Overexcitability
- Day 13: Gifted by any other name
- Day 14: The Gift of a Positive Word
- Day 15: Gifted And
- Day 16: Is Your Intensity Collapsed or Exaggerated?
- Day 17: Gaining Focus with a Sentence
- Day 18: How was I better today than yesterday?
- Day 19: Catch-Up Day and National Parenting Gifted Children Week
- Day 20: The Discombobulation Gene
- Day 21: Do You Try to Fix or Solve Emotions?
- Day 22: Emotions, continued
- Day 23: Mentors and Advisers
- Day 24: Profile of Intensity, Tom Haig
- Day 25: Creativity, revisited
- Day 26: Isolation in Peaceful Conditions
- Day 27: Interests as Gifts of Nature
- Day 28: You Deserve Good Things
- Day 29: The Need for Frank Philosophizing
- Day 30: Profile of Intensity, Cyndi Briggs
- Day 31: The Everyday Intensity Manifesto
Mindfulness
- Introduction to Mindful Intensity Series
- Where are you?
- Handle (Yourself) with Care
- Beginner’s Mind and Beginner’s Questions
- It’s About Time
- So much depends
- Mindfulness and Flow
- A Mindfulness Quiz
- “Getting Better at Being Myself”
Parenting
- Being On Our Children’s Side
- Big Picture Thinking
- Children’s Book Week
- For Parents of Perfectionists
- In Sync for 2011
- Just a Thought: Helping Children to Manage Stress
- Just Teasing
- On Empathy and Caring
- Re-Thinking the Helicopter Parent
- Say “No” to Grades
- TED Talks
- The Apprenticeship Way
- What Did You Feel in School Today?
- What Is Your Mission Statement?
- See also Homeschooling Ideas and Resources
Perfectionism
- A Lesson on Managing Perfectionism from Armando Galarraga
- For Parents of Perfectionists
- Goal Setting for Perfectionists
- The Perfect Month
- Perfectionism and Intensity
- Rowling’s Revisions
- Thin Envelopes of Opportunity
Personal Growth
- Are You at a Turning Point?
- Changing How We Talk to Ourselves
- Delayed Gratification
- Developing Character Muscles
- How Interesting: Turning Problems Into Puzzles
- Is It Live, or Memorex?
- Melancholy and Focus
- Motivation for the Unmotivated
- My Mid-Life Brain on Twitter
- On Happiness and Intensity
- A Post in Which Nothing Is Concluded
- The Practice of Writing
- Read the Complete Works
- Re-Reading
- Reflections on Being Away from Normal
- Slowing Down
- The Slower Choice
- Slowing Down, Changing Directions
- Two Questions That Can Change Your Life
- We Go Both Round and Upward
- What Is Your Mission Statement?
- What’s in Your Red (or Yellow) Spiral Notebook?
- Who Is Your Advocate?
- Who Would Be a Turtle? More on Slowing Down
- Why don’t you speak up more in class?
- Writing Creates You As You Write It
Poetry
- The Anthologist
- Everyday Poetry
- “The Geniuses Among Us”
- John Keats
- Longfellow speaks, and you shall hear
- Look Up! (a link to recognizing “not so sucky” poetry)
- Multimedia Poetry and More Multimedia Poetry
- National Poetry Month
- Poem on the Range Project
- Poetry Editor Tania Pryputniewicz, Guest Post by
- Poetry Resources
- Wordsworth’s “The Kitten and the Falling Leaves”
- Write an Ode to Spring
Writing
- Associate Literary Agent Bree Ogden
- Everyday Notetaking
- Everyday Poetry
- New Yorker Fiction Podcasts
- Opportunities for Young Writers
- Ordinary Writing: Will Our Grandchildren Want To Frame Our Emails?
- The Practice of Writing: Natalie Goldberg
- Rowling’s Revisions
- Solitude and Writer Rats
- Stirring Up Some Words
- Take a Closer Look
- What Should I Write About?
- What’s in Your Red (or Yellow) Spiral Notebook?
- Writing Creates You As You Write It
- Writing for Visual Thinkers
- Writing Prompt: A Joy Forever
- See also Poetry
