Not Creative on Medication?

Navigation through the fog

Jackie Olsen
Counter Arts
Published in
2 min readMar 17

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I define myself by my creativity. I’m a writer, a poet, a printmaker, and a painter. I dabble in oil pastels. I hang out in libraries and art galleries. I’m an artist, first and foremost.

Art is more than a pastime: it’s central to my identity. My friends are artists, many of them working artists who make a living making art, and art is my…

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Jackie Olsen
Counter Arts

Come for the insights on aging, leave with a doggie bag full of frogs and exoplanets. Now more poems about vacuuming! she/her/hers