Yep, I missed Monday again… but I had an excellent reason for it. Originally, I prepared another blog, which will appear next week- on Monday in fact, when I spied a Facebook message from my friend Michael with the song “Sound of Silence” as covered...
Last week I ventured to New York for a trip I had long planned and looked forward to for months. Those days could not have gone more wrong, just absolutely so horrible. No sleep for sixty hours, I didn’t eat. I flew home feeling as...
And, looking at my title this week, I hope some men. Everything I am going to say has been said before. I just hope I can add my voice to the throng. I am one of the many. May the many be strong. Proceed with...
Looking around at life, love means an awful lot of things to an awful lot of people. I watch people and I see what is in my own life. As with so many things, the disparities are striking. The greatest art, the most beautiful ballads,...
Someone asked me a very on point question the other day. We always hear of writing in first person point of view ie Once upon a time I took the subway to Olympus and the third person point of view Once upon a time Suzie...
This week’s Musical Monday springs from a personal source. I am thrilled to be able to showcase the debut novel, Nor-Cal, by my friend, Sean Finnegan. Sean and I are both Bay Area natives. We went to the same junior high school in Santa Rosa,...
I first watched David Letterman in the early eighties at a sleepover at my friend Lisa’s house. Must have been seventh or eighth grade. We were up too late. That experience proved to be a game changer for me, a paradigm shifter. He did silly...
As I mentioned in last week’s column, I recently attended the Dallas-Fort Worth Writers’ Conference. In addition to all the wonderful people I met, informational classes and lectures I attended, we were also treated to some pretty kick-ass keynote speeches. I missed Kevin J. Anderson...
This week’s post is about two kinds of ghosts. The first relates to my creative process. The second refers to the ghosts my characters may be dealing with. I spent the past weekend at the Dallas-Fort Worth Writers’ Conference in Dallas with two dear writing...
It’s been a bit. How are you? How have you been? Well? Well-ish? Life has consumed me, but I need to start blogging again. Well, crap on a cracker, but what a sad reason to return. Sunday we lost Chris Squire. For those of you...