How I Started A Journey Once

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...

How To Forge Ahead When You’re Afraid

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...

Stuffed Anger Makes You Literally Sick

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...

I Did Find Joy, And You Can Too

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...

My Readers Rock!

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...