The truth is that I was paying attention in class. I just pay attention in a different way than some.

I grew up surrounded by creativity: From the home-made and often hand-sewn Halloween costumes (including one pumpkin costume that caused great porch-climbing difficulty), to the twirled paper designs we’d spend hours creating at our summer cottage (we had no television), to the china painting that I never was able to perfect like Mom’s (the smell of turpentine always reminds me of her), to the hand-carved wood toys Dad made for me, and even through the craze of Friendly Plastic melting (you don’t even want to know).

Even today, my family, adults and children alike, can be found on weekends coloring and drawing side-by-side at Mom’s kitchen table. So, when that teacher of mine called my mother to complain about how I had disrupted her class with my silent and marginal (pun intended) creativity, I can only imagine that my mother’s response was to ask her if the drawings were any good! Mom was probably just happy that I didn’t tie another kid’s shoes together on a field trip at the board of education (like my sister had once done!).

While I don’t consider myself to be an actual artist, I doodle to this day. I’ve doodled on car trips, in meetings, and on conference calls. While on the phone with that last client, I was doodling on the back of a discarded envelope. (Gasp!) Based on my 7th grade teacher’s response, this behavior might indicate that I’m not focused on the activity around me, but those doodles that I try to confine to the width of a margin (sometimes they breach that double red line) actually help me focus and remember lectures, conversations, meetings, and sometimes even visual concepts (right?!).

I don’t know if this means that I’m more of a visual thinker and learner, but I do know that I remember more the things I see on a page or the things that I’ve written or typed myself; I know that I remember the information surrounding those doodles more because of them. Perhaps it’s the concrete identity of the images that makes the words and concepts tangible. Perhaps it’s similar to scent or color recognition. Perhaps it’s magic. Whatever the case, I doodle and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon!

I’m glad my mom understood the workings of a creative mind. I’m glad that, instead of grounding me for doodling in class, she fostered my creativity and continues to do so to this day, as I think creativity is what keeps us going. I believe that creativity is the basis for problem solving and innovation, and I thank my mom for not allowing outside forces to try to take that from me (not that they’d succeed, but Mom had my back!). And if I get a call from some outraged 7th grade teacher a few years down the road, I won’t be surprised.

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*In the strangest of coincidences, my niece was just admonished for doodling by one of her college professors. She shared a link to this article, which I find very interesting: http://lifehacker.com/5162029/doodling-increases-focus-and-recall Of course, she also sent the link to her professor in a response, which I hope was as nice as she told us it was!

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Some people like to start each new year with a resolution to change past behaviors or to adopt a whole new mentality. I’m guessing that the gym might seem a little fuller and the fast food line a little emptier — at least for a while.

My plan for the new year is to start it by giving a little shout out to my clients (see client list here), both new and old. I’ve had a great time working with each and every one of them in 2011 and look forward to continuing to provide them with the best marketing and graphic support in 2012.

Maybe I’ll also get around to dieting, exercising, reducing my carbon footprint, and replacing the paper towel roll when it’s empty.

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