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  • Creative Thresholds

    Creative Thresholds

    Last year, in between my first and second surgery for thyroid cancer (I ended up having three), I came up with the idea of having a magazine-style blog called Creative Thresholds where I shared some of my work but also showcased some of my super-talented friends’ work. That was about 7 months ago and the Read more

  • Inspiration Here and Now

    Inspiration Here and Now

    Sometimes it’s the little things. Today I did a poetry reading for the “Read, Write and Doodle” Guerrilla Artist Group youth art sessions at Mooresville Public Library. I’d been a little apprehensive when I’d been asked to do it, wondering if I’d have anything 12-18 year olds could connect with. At the end of the Read more

  • What I Remember

    What I Remember

    I used to want an iPhone simply so I could take photographs. The fledgling mobile photography community (primarily iPhoneographers) fascinated me with their freedom and creativity in regard to photography. I actually didn’t get an iPhone for several years–and it’s turned out to be just as I thought it would.  To put it in the Read more

  • And so it starts…!

    And so it starts…!

    After resisting having my own personal website for years, I’ve succumbed. It’s here. And I’m a lot more excited about it than I thought I would be. Not just from a business point of view, but from a personal creative one as well. I’m hoping to share many of my projects in process, something that Read more

  • ART

    ART

    From time to time we catch a glimpse of who we think we “really” are, the exhilaration and excitement of recognizing something that seems ourselves and yet larger than ourselves at the same time. It is this “something” that fuels my passion both in the process of art and in its subject matter. Art—in process Read more

  • WRITING

    WRITING

    Melissa D. Johnston’s writing has been published in various journals, including Word and World, where she won the 2005 Doctoral Essay Prize with “Making Space: Silence, Voice, and Suffering.” Recently her poetry manuscript Encountering Crows finished as a semifinalist for the Joanna Cargill Coconut Book Prize for a First Book given by Coconut Press. Her current book project explores Read more