by Terri Willingham | Aug 6, 2014 | activism, civic engagement, Creativity, Life, Makers, social justice, Society, Uncategorized
For us westerners chocolate is just one more thing. It’s inconsequential. We like to eat it, sometimes we get delighted by it for a minute. … We don’t think about it and the incredible effort and resources that are required to make it. We take it for...
by Terri Willingham | Aug 2, 2014 | art, Creativity, education, Life, Makers, Society, TEDx, Theresa Williingham, travel, Uncategorized
Life is short and you need to do what you wanna do, what you have a passion for… The thing is you gotta dream big and that’s all there is, you just gotta dream big… Ritch Branstrom While on a trip to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan recently, we stayed at a...
by Terri Willingham | Jul 24, 2014 | Creativity, education, Life, Makers, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
Tinkering is a minor risk taking activity without any great consequence; it is not goal directed nor are there defined outcomes. There are no key performance indicators for tinkering. Thus, tinkering is suspended from the pressures of defined goals and time limits....
by Terri Willingham | Jul 21, 2014 | Creativity, Makers, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
There’s a very interesting dialectic between science and science fiction. If you take a look at, for example, Edwin Hubble, the greatest astronomer of the 20th century, he was destined to be a Missouri country lawyer. He remembered reading Jules Verne as a...
by Terri Willingham | Jul 17, 2014 | Creativity, Libraries, Makers, Philosophy, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
The community that now calls the site home, is an amazing mix of wonder from around the world. Every day we continue to be amazed by the imagination, curiosity, and simple awesomeness of everyone who shares their creations with us on Instructables. The Instructables,...
by Terri Willingham | Jul 8, 2014 | civic engagement, Florida, Society, Speak Out, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
A little background: At the end of June, the Pasco County School Board took under perfectly reasonable consideration the idea of eliminating the titles of valedictorian and salutatorian in public high schools, a proposal that passed unanimously on first reading,...
