You can find Tamara Holland at Bean Up The Nose Art where she's the owner, writer, artist, and resident boss-of-herself. Her greeting cards and luggage tags appear in cool stores up and down the West Coast, and you can find lots of other stuff at her shop on Cafe Press. She's also happy to be part of the creative team at Morning Coffee Productions, where she gets to make still more fabulous products with her friends.

Okay, let's acknowledge the oddness here straight out. I'm writing about the peace you can achieve by spending time offline, yet I'm a Twitter and online addict, writing (online) a blog post for a very cool online site (which covers social media, geekery and that lifestyle), for people who will be r ...

Looking for ways to spark your creativity? Want to understand how our brains are able to imagine something that does not yet exist? Wondering why inspiration so often comes just after we have "given up?" Check out Imagine: How Creativity Works, where Jonah Lehrer explores exactly these issues. Lehre ...