Home & Garden
Water, Water Everywhere
People who jump into organic gardening without any preparation often start off on the wrong foot by overwatering or not watering properly.
Urban Homesteading: Grow Your Own Sandwich
You don't have to have a large garden spread to grow your own organic food. In fact, you can grow plenty of food to supplement your diet in a small …
Home & Garden
Bread from Your Garden?
If you're interested in growing grain in your garden, a good book on the subject is "Homegrown Whole Grains" by Sara Pitzer (Storey Publishing, 2009, $14.95).
Fashion
Fresh-Squeezed Style
Keeping with the theme of the GOOD issue, I thought to go on the hunt for goods and pieces made by local artists and designers. Turns out, I didn't have …
Cover
You, the Masterpiece
Once they reach adulthood, people tend to think that they are either creative or not, left-brain or right-brain, and never shall the twain meet.
GOOD Ideas
Brain Games: Elbie or Arbie?
Often, people either think they're creative or they're not. And it is true that people tend to be more "left-brain" or "right-brain."
GOOD Ideas
Learn to Be Inspired
We live in a world where kids who can't sit still in class are labeled troublemakers or low-performers or even ADD. But maybe they're just kinesthetic learners: that is, they …
GOOD Ideas
A World-Class City If ...
Creative Class" maven Richard Florida has ranked Jackson 75th on the creative-class scale (higher than Memphis and New Orleans!)
Creativity: A Secret to Getting Ahead
Inventive thinking is prized now more than almost any other time in history. The creative class is on the rise and is an important emerging driver in the economy.
GOOD Ideas
Channeling Your Creativity
I can't say exactly when I stopped painting, drawing and attempting to write poetry. Somewhere between elementary school and college, life happened, and landing a job that paid the bills …
GOOD Ideas
Map It Out
As a creative person, I know what it's like to thrive on flying by the seat of my pants and completing tasks without a structured plan to carry it out.
GOOD Ideas
Time to Create
So how to convince your right-brain, distinguished self to plan and get organized? You need to learn basic principles and then practice until it becomes second nature.
GOOD Ideas
Art All Around
If the red light on the corner of Pascagoula and State streets catches you while you're driving northbound on State Street, look to your left.
GOOD Ideas
Outside the Political Box
The "cultural creatives" movement is one attempt to reject the binary division in favor of a new, more enlightened political climate.
GOOD Ideas
Epic Change
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."—Albert Einstein
