Creative Flow: What’s Your Ritual
My favorite time at airports is just before sunrise. I crave the calm and quiet that veils before propellers crank and jet engines roar. The green and white glint of the airport’s rotating beacon is, for me, a reminder of what a…
The Myth of Keeping Up.
I have a strong sense of discipline. A characteristic people tell me they both like and hate most about me. From the outside this sense seems like a gift and it is, beyond a doubt. A gift, however, that needs to be…
Gratitude: What We Give, What We Get.
This past weekend I invited over one of the subcontractors who worked on our remodel project. He was part of the demo team, the lead framer and after I took over the job, he stepped up, broadened his scope, and was invaluable…
Ice Breakers in the era of social media. Easier or far more complicated?
I was recently at a gallery event admiring a colorblocked painting covered with brilliant butterflies when another guest sauntered over, squinted at the price and title card, then stepped back to my side. “Transmogrification?” he sounded out the title. “Evolution?” I guessed….
Hooked on Phonics?
I’d just finished my website newsletter, the backstory behind the prophetic future pill in Spirit Dance, (click here and sign up to get the story) and was motoring around the kitchen island stretching my legs–waka, waka–happy as a hungry Pac Man…
The Telephone Game and Marketing a Book.
Have you ever sat in a line with a dozen or so people, whispered a statement and then passed, what you assumed were the same words, mouth to ear, until reaching the last person in the row? Then, asked that last individual…
Don’t Ask if You Don’t Want to Know–The benefits of reviews: the good, so-so and the “needs to improve.”
Those of you who follow my Facebook Fan Page know that I just returned from the first in a series of book promotional trips. If you’re not a follower, the journey was to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in where roughly 500,000…
In and Out of Your Life
Do you ever think about what your days would be like if every person you have been friends with at one point, remained in your life? What if from the moment you met, you had to maintain a relationship with each…
Why I Became an Author.
This blog spun from the writing exercise I posted this morning on my Facebook Fan Page. Drills that were initially intended to improve my writing, but have somehow evolved into life lessons that nudge me along on my track. Who knew? Not…