by Terri Willingham | Aug 22, 2014 | Civil Rights, Creativity, knowledge, Makers, science, Society, Theresa Williingham, Uncategorized
They worked as riveters, buckers, sanders, welders, crane operators, bus drivers, uniform makers, bullet makers, parachute folders, clerical workers, assembly line workers, Red Cross and so much more. They were teenagers, young adult to senior citizens. They came...
by Terri Willingham | Aug 10, 2014 | activism, civic engagement, compassion, Society, Uncategorized
“Duas tantum rex anxius optat, panem et circensus.” ( “The people long eagerly for two things – bread and circuses.”) Juvénal If you’re online for more than five minutes a day, or have caught mainstream news anytime over the last...
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 4, 2014 | Creativity, Events, Libraries, Makers, Uncategorized
We had a great time meeting with a terrific group of forward thinking Tampa Bay Library Consortium members today, at the Bruton Memorial Library in Plant City, who came out for our Creative Programming for the 21st Century Library workshop. About 20 librarians,...
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....
