Back in the fifties my brother used to jive dance with me in our living room. In the sixties, my sister taught me how to…
An ‘elevator pitch’ is a carefully crafted speech that sales people design specifically to inflate curiosity and inspire business. When someone asks me, “What is…
There is a profound difference between the boredom that arises from being unoccupied and the stillness that accompanies a good daydream. In this era of…
I re-read one of the first short stories I wrote and I could barely get through it. There was so much I wanted to edit…
This post is one of my favourites. It is a re-cycle, with edits, from a post I wrote ten years ago; In her 2011 autobiography,…
“Draw what you like and hope others like it too”. Charles Schulz Substitute “create” for “draw” and that advice is suitable for any medium. As…
Every week I spend some time stressing over my choice of topics for this blog. I scratch through my running list of possible ideas, pick…
My writing style has an affliction I refer to as comma-itis. Around and through my sentences and paragraphs are an abundance of commas. I tend…
Previously I believed I could not write fiction. It’s not important why I thought so, just note that I went from “I can’t,” to “here’s…
Here’s a variation on the proverbial desert island question: What if you were to be stranded on an island and could take as many books,…