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Weekend Update
Occasionally, I plan to list a few books, movies, records, articles, blogs, overheard conversations, or just whatever else may have popped into my head over the course of a week or so. These may...
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Tyrus Morgan
Available October 30, 2012 This is not really an album review or an artist profile. It’s not even a veiled marketing ploy to separate you from your money. It’s more of a public service announcement. I...
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Artfully Prepared
“Elite performers plan assiduously and prepare in depth before, during, and after a performance.” Shirley Emmons and Alma Thomas When I was a kid, I wanted to be a rock star. Didn’t you? Eventually, I...
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Flash Fiction
According to Wikipedia: Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. This brand of storytelling...
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Behind Bars
Last week I went to jail. The good news is that I was released the same day. The even better news is that I was never arrested, booked, or fingerprinted. I was just visiting. Although I don’t write...
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Election Day, Before and After
A cyber-friend asked my thoughts just prior to the election. Here was my reply: My Grown Up Election Day Wish… I would encourage folks to be involved, but avoid becoming enamored. Don’t buy the hype....
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Novels and Platforms
For years, I kept hearing publishing industry folk talk about platforms. It was the writer’s responsibility to market their own books. The publisher, it turned out, was the venture capitalist. My...
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Weekend Update
Music-wise, it was a slow week. I did a little reading and a lot of listening this week. Here is some of what I discovered… Incendiary by Chris Cleave (novel, audio) – The back cover calls it...
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Quotable Me
I’m not sure this actually counts as a new publishing credit, but it appears that I’ve been quoted in a new book. In fact, according to the table of contents, I have my own chapter! The new book is...
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Featured in Burnside
What a very cool thing to happen… A few weeks ago, I submitted a small story I’m rather fond of to The Burnside Writers Collective. Last Friday they decided to publish it. (Okay, I’m fairly certain...
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Tyrus Morgan interview and song
Click HERE to see one of my very best friends interviewed on Harvest-TV. Somewhere around the 19:20 mark, we start playing music. To learn more about Ty, check out his website HERE.
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Analogman
I’m going to tell a simple story about one of my all-time favorite companies. It’s called Analogman and they make really super cool pedals (aka, stomp boxes) for guitar players. Their reputation for...
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The F-Word
The dreaded F-word. Yes, that one. That overused, multi-functioning swear word that garners R-ratings from the Motion Picture Association. A couple of housekeeping things here at the outset. 1- I’m not...
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Merry Christmas!
Hope your holiday season is healthy and happy and refreshing and whatever else you might need it to be…
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For The Love Of The Game
“I’m too old for this.” That is my primary thought on Sunday nights as I run up and down the brilliant hardwood of a local middle school. It’s a pure thought, earnest and true. (A few secondary...
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What They Don’t Know
courtesy of Aubrey Snyder All of my kids are creative. Three of the four are creative in traditional ways people think about things…art, music, drama, dance, etc. (The other one is a stud football...
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
This is not a real question. It’s a newish novel by Maria Semple. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s mostly original, comprised of emails and letters, as well as traditional prose. Some will say it’s...
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Streaks
There’s a story attributed to Jerry Seinfeld in which he gave solicited advice to an aspiring comedian named Brad Isaac. The story goes that Isaac asked Seinfeld the secret to becoming a better...
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Writerly patience?
Everybody seems to be in a hurry to do everything these days (me included). And I certainly don’t want to add fuel to the self vs. traditional publishing debate. (I’ve done one and plan to do both in...
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Sugar: The Bitter Truth
I first heard about Robert Lustig on Here’s The Thing. I was more than a little intrigued, not only by his message, but the science behind it and his passion when sharing it. Note: this is not good...
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