Befriend your Inner Critic

When I arrived at my friend’s home for her holiday party, cars overflowed the driveway spilling onto the narrow road. I checked my pant’s pocket for my business cards. Just printed earlier that day, they had my website’s URL and Twitter name in white script on a deep-blue background. These Read more…

Mountain Stream

Otherwise, God Winks

My last runaway was to Twin Mountain, NH, in November 2019, to work on my MFA Fiction thesis. That weekend, I brought along the book, When God Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life, by Squire D. Rushnell, which I read in the mornings to start my day. Read more…

Writing Files

Technology and Creativity

Several summers ago, in my first writing workshop, I joked that the difference between a Master of Information Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) was my MFA homework could be done while resting in my hammock. While that statement is sometimes true (at least in the waning days Read more…

Sunset

Not Your Average To Do List

Each morning I write my To Do list. It is the one that says, do laundry, change beds, pay bills. Or if it is a work day, it is the never-ending list of customers to visit or tasks to tackle. Sometimes I wonder why I write it all down. It Read more…