Melissa Oberg, a potter who lives in Joppa, has a show at Offtrack Art in Westminster titled “All Fired Up,” running through April 27. Oberg started her creative journey when she was 8 and ...

Like most engineers, I find myself drawn to complex puzzles. And the more complicated the problem, the more intrigued I am to solve it. This love for problem-solving was nurtured at a very young age.

Whether we identify a problem that inspires us or are given a problem to solve, how creative our work on it will be depends on how we think about it. What aspects of the problem can we focus on? How ...