Category: reflection
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Lessons from George Carlin
After two weeks of my daughter’s struggle with a double ear infection, vertigo and laryngitis— probably brought on by a mix of swinging weather between spring and deep winter & attending a late semester college frat party— I suddenly find myself drowning in phlegm with a cough. The doctor sees…
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10 Little Rules
November proved to be hectic here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing, so I should not have been surprised when I received a phone call from author Larry Sceurman. He had opened his box of bookmarks for his new children’s book, Bookworm’s Magical Journey, and the box contained bookmarks for Kathleen Goggin‘s…
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On bookstores and Bibles
If you are a regular around here, you may know that Gayle Hendricks and I went to Massachusetts November 2 so that we could visit the museum of printing. We also visited Mystic, Connecticut; Andover, Massachusetts; Lowell, Massachusetts; and New Haven, Connecticut. Bookstores E.H. Jacobs held his book launch for…
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A journalistic pre-election perspective
I received my first official paycheck from a newspaper while still in high school. A small local sports-themed weekly wanted to expand into a community “good news” weekly and asked me to write one feature a week to make this happen. This was in the early 1990’s and I want…
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Arts & Crafts & Words
The fourth week of the month is always hairy for me because my local public library’s board meets, of which I am vice president, and my local writers’ group meets, and of that I am president. Plus, if you’re like me, the mundane items like bills and finances seem to…
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Resources for Writers
I recently had someone mention to me that its hard to find resources for beginning writers, or writers who don’t have experience seeking out opportunities. It’s a skill that writers and authors develop over time— finding resources. If I had to make a recommendation on the fly, here are some…
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Inspiration, Perspiration, Procrastination
We’ve all heard the adages about success being a small part inspiration and a large part perspiration. But have you ever stopped to consider how much procrastination factors into that equation? If I had to rewrite the old adage— because this morning I did all the dishes, vacuumed the kitchen floor and…
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