The following is a chapter from Money, Sex, Power & Faith. Order your copy in paperback or for Kindle! “We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens— like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed …
I went to church yesterday for the first time in a long time. A friend had invited me, as she likes to go on occasion, and since the church’s statement of beliefs passed my idolatry litmus test, I figured I would join her. You see, one of the main issues …
Do you have a problem with being productive? In this day and age, it can sometimes seem as if time management is nearly impossible. Productivity expert Penny Zenker says that there are four essential elements of being more productive and creating a better life for yourself. Penny says that productivity …
When I was first faced with the notion of why the Estralarians wanted to turn Sarasota into a marketing mecca, I had the same question that people ask me to this day, “Why Sarasota?” They told me that Sarasota was uniquely suited for the task. Although I’ve heard theories on …
I’m very pleased that so many people are enjoying my new song and video “The People That Made Me.” When I perform the song in The Cowboy Cabaret, I introduce it with the following poem: Whatever we’re goin’ through and wherever we’re goin’ There’s a number of people that we …
I am very pleased to announce the release of my song “The People That Made Me.” Although I wrote the song a few years ago, I made some revisions and produced it during my month off of Facebook, which could probably stand as a testament to how many better ways …
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 …
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 …
