What else is there?
Off Season Craving fresh air, we head to the beach on a particularly fine winter day in Southern California. We do not go often, and yet we live within a 30-minute drive. The beach this day is gloriously empty. The best part about the ocean is that she doesn’t change much. She’s so rare. And […]
“If it is to be it is up to me.” ~ Senator Cory Booker I heard the quote while listening to ‘On Being’ with Krista Tippet’s Podcast . Go for it!
Mozart. Bach. Van Gogh. Rodin. Margaret Mitchell. Stephen King. Stephen Spielberg. George Lucas. Have you heard of these folks? They all finished something. Did they know they were done? Probably, they just got tired of messing with whatever they were working on, put a period, an ending, a final splotch of paint or marble or […]
This is my book. I wrote it because I had to put my self out. Be out. These are pieces of me (they’re always called pieces, whether a piece of music, art, or writing) that assure me I was here. I never thought of that before, but it’s true. Creatives leave these little breadcrumbs like Hansel […]
Has anyone noticed besides me? When I first started writing professionally, the rule was “only one exclamation point on a page.” What happened? The little devils sneak into so many places, they’re like ants, crawling through paragraphs carrying their dead and dropping them here and there, I guess. I don’t know. Exclamation points are everywhere. […]
Q: What 20th century “convenience” is most taken for granted? A: 69% voted for TOILET PAPER; 42% say the zipper; 38% say frozen foods Q: If stranded on a desert island with only one “necessity,” what would you choose? A: 49% of people surveyed chose toilet paper as their greatest island necessity ahead of food. […]
Below is my list of a few things for which I would just as soon have someone or something come to me in the middle of the night and handle, so I don’t have to make an appointment for it, panic myself with the anticipation of it, suffer the pain of it, or take the time […]
We all voted and it’s unanimous. The Project Lifestyle (TPL) is a means to sanity in an insane world. What is it? Who uses it? When? Where? Why does it work? How does it work? What is TPL? Life is a project. Webster’s defines project as: “an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned […]
Note to Readers: This is fiction. The security line stretched from the screener checkpoint back through the boarding pass/I.D. checkers, and around the Disney-esque, maze-like lanes almost to the street. It was a Friday afternoon. TSA agents hated Fridays. Passengers waxed surly from long workweeks. Businessmen wanted to get home; weekend travelers wanted to escape […]