by admin | Mar 11, 2015 | Blogs
Of course it was about writing a novel. Mine often are, as, well, that’s what I do! Just about everything in my life circles back into fiction, one way or another. It doesn’t matter what the journey focuses on, though; any undertaking follows a similar path, with the...
by admin | Mar 10, 2015 | Blogs
We all get afraid. That’s just part of being human. If you feel no fear, you’re deceiving yourself. Which none of us do, right? J Of course we all also know the Victor Hugo quote, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.” We know that. But...
by admin | Mar 10, 2015 | Blogs
Anger comes knocking. We all get stung by its prickly spines now and then. And ours is justified, no? I was right, he was wrong, damn it! Funny thing about that emotion too—you can just think of a situation that made you angry and start to feel the heat rising in...
by admin | Mar 6, 2015 | Blogs
We all know that happiness, peace, joy are all things you find within you. Right? All the gurus in all the world’s traditions tell us that. From Jesus saying, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” to Pharrell’s Grammy Winning “Happiness is the truth,” the message...
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Blogs
We hear all the time about the dumbing down of America. And that started decades ago. We’ve seen it progress in publishing through the years. When my first novel, By the Book, was published, the industry geared its books to an eighth-grade reading level. Doesn’t...