Full Disclosure: Recycled Story Ahead This post contains the basics of a speech I gave at a business dinner in August, 2016. My task: demonstrate storytelling as a form of communication. The audience: about 20 professionals, many of whom I’d…
Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s Armadillo Bobblehead — Or Not How A Place Fires Your Imagination Matters More Than Any Facts About It Have you had the ability to meet a person you’ve admired from afar? No, I don’t mean admire in that…
Writing, Distractions, Productivity Causes of Lack of Focus Most days, I can focus well even if there are a lot of noises and distractions all around me. Today wasn’t one of those days. For one thing, I had a lot to…
Save early, save often
Well I survived NaNoWriMo and completed over 50K words in a novel manuscript. November was probably the most stressful month of my life (to date, she says, crossing her fingers and looking for wood to knock on) but it wasn’t…
