Who are you and why are you doing this?

My name is Dale Lyles.  I am a retired educator who has spent his life Making The Thing That Is Not: creating.  I have been the artistic director of a theatre company, a choir director, a website designer, a composer, a painter, a writer, an actor, a dancer, and above all, a teacher.

This website is to promote what I have found to be effective ways to allow yourself to be the creative human that you want to be.  I've written a book — Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy — which is an incredibly handy source of inspiration.  You should buy it.

NOW

November 2024: awaiting publisher confirmation for Young Person’s Guide to Lichtenbergianism; cleaning my study (more important than you might think; making some plans for the next six months… (Hire me.)

Next: Ten Little Waltzes; publish Young Person’s Guide to Lichtenbergianism

Reading: The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails; Fluke, by Brian Klaas; Awe, by Dacher Keltner; The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, translated by Andrea L. Purvis and edited by Robert B. Strassler; Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne

Watching: …

Listening: random stuff