An Open Heart
I’m pretty much an open book, and if you pay attention, you can follow me as I work my way through life. I don’t pick random flaws and challenges for my characters to experience. I choose those in which I’m dealing with myself. So if you want to know me, all the good and bad, […]
Warning: Woo-woo Alert
I’m very lucky to be a part of a writer group called the Tiki Bar Pals. We started chatting via WhatsApp and Zoom during Covid and kept going after that, and it’s been awesome to have fellow writers to lean on. There’s so much positivity, support, laughter, writer geekdom… the whole thing. And very often […]
My Friend Kasia and the Art of Reframing
It was one of those travel days, dragging out of bed early on Bainbridge Island just west of Seattle, trying not to forget anything, racing to catch a ferry to catch a taxi to catch a plane. We landed in Boston in the afternoon, dragging and stiff. We took the shuttle to our car, and […]
Letting Go
I write this from my desk, looking out one of the back windows of our flat in downtown Valencia. It’s a fascinating and inspirational spot, as I am filled with glimpses of the daily lives of my neighbors on their terraces, the fit couple working with a trainer, the bearded man who stares when I […]
A Different Kind of 9/11 Story
A note to anyone struggling right now… Like so many of you, my whole world changed the day the towers fell. Not in the way you might think though. I used to play the banjo professionally, but a career-ending hand disorder called focal dystonia sent me scrambling to pick up the pieces. It all started […]
What COVID-19 Has Taught Me
As this pandemic began to mess with my life, I first took a rather selfish stance. My concerns went to my immediate family. How will COVID-19 affect us? What will we do with our son if he doesn’t have school for the rest of the year? Will I get a refund? Do we have enough […]
Words to Turn Your Day Around
I’ve written before about Leila Meacham, who has been a huge inspiration to me over the years. Today, I want to pass along more of her wisdom. Leila was a highschool English teacher most of her life before hitting the big time with her novel, Roses. Thanks to a serendipitous encounter, she has been coaching […]
Do What You Love vs. Love What You Do
What is it about the post-baby-boomer generations who struggle so with having to work for a living, especially having to work a job one doesn’t want to do? I suppose it has to do with the conflicting modern messages about chasing your dreams. Raised by parents who endured the depression, baby boomers were more often […]
Gratitude
I want to share a quick story, and it has to do with my own life, but I tell it in hopes that my words might give you the faith required to enrich your own life. It has to do with the law of attraction. My wife and I were walking along the beach the […]
Digging Deep
Cheers from 35,003 feet up in the Delta sky. I’m headed home from Las Vegas and had the great fortune of running into one of my heroes at the hotel. I hopped off the treadmill yesterday and nearly walked right into Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen. Imagine one of the biggest rock stars […]
Always Be Therapizing
I have an addiction to self-help books. In fact, I probably need a self-help book about my addiction. Honestly, I don’t see how any of you make it without them, though I’m the first one to admit I’m a little behind on the evolutionary ladder. As long as I have some guidance, I’ve got life […]
Get Me To Shavasana
Please, for Heaven’s sakes, just get this slightly overweight late-thirties monkey-minded male to Shavasana. I love final Shavasana. My teacher is done beating me up for the day—in a good way—and there’s a chance I’m going to get a cold towel on my forehead and maybe even a foot rub. But more importantly, my final […]
