The first time a small publication offered me a few token dollars to reprint one of my pieces, I wrote in my notebook: No matter what happens next, from this day until you die you will always be a published writer. I’m still slightly giddy about that moment. I’ve learned – the ...
Poker has been an important part of my life for nearly 15 years. In fact, about 5 years ago, I wrotethis blog postabout the measurably positive effect it has had on my life. I’ve been playing regularly since 2004, and hosting games regularly since roughly 2007. ...
So odd. Anyway, here’s a piece he wrote on professional workplace respectability dressing. Here’s something else he did on men’s wear wins and fails on the campaign trail. He also weighed in on the topic: do dress sneakers belong in the oval office. With the fall of Twitter, I ...
This above all is what makes Shogun one of the best novels I have ever read, a trait he shares with other supreme writers like Shakespeare, Stephen King, and Dickens. (Clavell wrote a series of other Asian novels, with dates ranging from the 1960s (Nobel House) to the 1800s (Tai Pan...
Reddit Facebook More I was told, years ago, that it was a good thing to have a sequel…not a guarantee, but a help. It took many, many years to write my first Manuscript. I just wrote, struggling to get it right. I managed to obtain several critiques from talented, published authors...
Facebook Tumblr Email LinkedIn This is a WordBowl first: A retelling of a story originally posted in 2014. I recently participated in a literary event at NYC’s legendary KGB Bar, and in preparation for my reading of tech-related stories, I reworked the original “synapse” as my opening ...
I was in the bed with the door closed, when I heard a sound that stood all of the hair on my body…I was frozen for a moment. In the darkness of the empty home, far away from Boston, I heard the familiar robotic sounding woman’s voice say, “low battery.” (As I wrote that...
” the science journalist Alice Robb wrote in her book Why We Dream, “lying on their backs, with looks of horror in their eyes.” To this day, their exact cause of death is a mystery. But one University of Arizona anthropologist, who spent a decade studying the phenomenon, argued the ...
Most of life, as we now know it, is a distraction. We are constantly diverted from our Father’s business, and His kingdom isn’t being built in the way He desires. What needs to happen is for each one of us to decide to listen to His voice so that we can begin to flow togethe...
When asked a question in an interview by Anderson Cooper, about whether she agreed with General Milley, whom Bob Woodward wrote said of Trump, he is ‘fascist to the core,’ Harris simply answer, yes, yes I do. She never uttered the word fascist. Milley, according to Woodward, went on...