And walking back to the car, I could feel Moth’s anxiety—like he was weighing the odds of running as fast as he could across the highway into the wheat field on the other side, like what were the chances he could get away before I ran him down with the car and put a bullet in...
It’s taken me 67 years to realize that Charlotte and I were not destined to be friends. We were too alike in the wrong ways. Both of us had a wild side, no doubt spurred by our mother’s over-protectiveness. The things I didn’t like about myself, I saw in Charlotte: a tenden...
One of my Oregon writing students Matt Tolbert had his screenplay,The Starter Marriage, produced as a feature film. My first volume of plays has just been published (see below) and is on Amazon now. I was honored with the Stewart Holbrook Literary Legacy Award at the Oregon Book Awards las...
To digress: Eight years ago I watched a debate, and later the 2016 election returns, with my then 98-year-old mother. Having accompaniedhermother to the polls in Boston in 1920 after women got the vote (I’m pretty sure my grandmother voted for Harding) my mother was all set to witnes...
Amazon Link (Kindle Fire or paperback):https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Pleasures My review of Simple Pleasures: Reading this collection was like forest bathing, the photos of Liz’s favorite outdoor places filled with green mountains, blue lakes, red and yellow leaves, gray rocks, white trees,...
To me, that is getting on this way too late. I mean, once your book is complete and you tell your friends and family, then what? I started on my social platform brand once I had my first draft of my Jasper, Amazon parrot series. By the time the drafts, edits, cover, and more,...
balance, hope, well-being, mindfulness, planning, waypower, happiness Reflecting. An excerpt fromPlanning for Everything. A List Apart.(04/03/18) memory, truth, beliefs, retrospectives, double loop learning, confabulation The Big Web Show. Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman.(03/23/18) ...
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I have a request. If any of you have read Painting of Sorrow and not yet reviewed it, please do. Stars and a brief review on Amazon.com will go a long way in helping me with marketing. This is also true for any other indie author. Getting the word out is the toughest job. ...
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