Significant Progress
I mentioned in an earlier post how writing every day for this site had unexpected side benefits. I had been using Klok to track my time working on editing projects, and found it to be very helpful....
View ArticleRequiem For an Old Friend
Yesterday, an old friend lost his life. And though I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in more than 17 years, the news today still hit me like a kick in the gut. We weren’t close friends. But we were...
View ArticleLet It Out
Completely drained. That’s how I felt about writing today. As I opened my laptop this evening to write something – anything – I realized that my heart just wasn’t in it. I’m still struggling with...
View Article“Spread Out!!”
In the 1978 Clint Eastwood movie Every Which Way But Loose, Cholla, the leader of a gang of outlaw bikers called The Black Widows, always barks the same order when his men make their entrance to a...
View ArticleClean Your Plate
My parents grew up during the Great Depression. That experience taught them the importance of not wasting anything – and they passed that on to me. At meals, they impressed upon me the fact that...
View ArticleThe Published Writer
Today, I got published. No, not six-figure book deal, private jet, book tour published. Not self-published on this site either, where I control the editorial staff with an iron fist. But published –...
View ArticleThe Perspective of Elapsed Time
Sometimes it’s difficult to see our lives objectively. We’re so close, so caught up in the living of our daily grind that we can’t always see what got us here; what we missed by taking this path, or...
View ArticleScreamin’ Sale!
My first book, Jet Screamer: The Pout Before the Storm, is available for sale on Amazon. From now until Saturday, November 8th, it’s on sale for just $0.99! On Sunday, November 9th, the price will go...
View ArticleDoing Work Actually… WORKS!
I’m very excited to report that my second book is now published! Meat Sandwiches: What REAL Men Eat is Book Two in the How to Steer Your Kid series, and it went live on Amazon yesterday. I had a lot of...
View ArticleIn The Trenches
Last fall, I was interviewed by my friend Tom Morkes, the CEO of Insurgent Publishing and the brains behind TomMorkes.com, where he writes about getting the most out of your creativity and building...
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