Being off of Facebook for a month has allowed me to gain a more healthy perspective on the social media juggernaut, and it has forced me to reconsider the true purpose of the social media platform. One of the great challenges with Facebook, and many of the portals we are …
So, after I saw a UFO and got a strange email about a book I’d supposedly written that was supposed to help Sarasota become a “marketing mecca,” I wanted to get to the bottom of what happened. Here is the next chapter from my book How to Survive an Estralarian …
When I left to write The Rucksack Letters, my friend Jay Burleson gave me a book of poetry by James Kavanaugh entitled There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves. This is one of the poems that really spoke to me as I set out to live the rest …
Looking back over all of the things I’ve written over the last several years, and considering how I’ve spent my time and energy, has certainly had me thinking. Not only am I thinking of how to best deliver all of the words I’ve compiled so they have the greatest impact …
In 2001, I left Sarasota to travel the country and write the book that would become known at The Rucksack Letters. The following is a passage from the Preface to give you an inclination as to why I felt compelled to make such a journey. This book began a few …
If you read the beginning of this story last week, here is what happened next. If you didn’t read it, you can now, but all you really need to know is that it was a bleak time for me writing a very difficult project, we were on our fourth hurricane …
I went to GoodReads.com to look up an author and remembered that I was one of them. However, when I looked at my Dashboard, there were four of the eight books that sounded really cool, but, unfortunately, I didn’t write. This kind of thing has happened before where books I didn’t …
I can’t say I’ve always been a huge Frank Sinatra fan, as he was a few years ahead of my time, but I have always loved his song “That’s Life.” Of course, when he released his version in 1966, he was the third person to have produced it, and truth …
Although I’ve not always been consistent in doing so, I’ve often said that my motto is to “write the world”. In thinking about the premise of that, I am inclined to think first that it is about writing the world the way you would have it to be. Write your …
Although it happens pretty frequently when I’m in the flow and doing what I think I should be doing, I’m always amazed when synchronicity occurs. For instance, I’ve been meaning to starting going through my book How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld and release it through my blog so …
