When I started thinking about how I would make some changes in my personal and creative life, I started with the first necessary...

As I mentioned early in the week, I hit a creative wall in the second quarter of 2013. Things weren’t happening, for me, and as the...

It is easy for me to rack up a list of “some day” items. Some people call it long-term planning, and others call it having a “bucket...

Yes, I know it is already the 7th of January, and whether or not I like it, the new year is in full swing, but when you are married to a...

Late last week, the computer models (all six million of them) were projecting that the tropical storm named Isaac would spend the last...

We had company for seven days last week. It is part of living in Florida: People want to come visit. (We’ve had more visitors in two...

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Last week I blogged about having a group of fellow writers (or other creatives) with whom you periodically “check-in” regarding the...

I knew it before I graduated. I even talked about it in my graduating seminar presentation. The post-MFA writing life is difficult. As I...

I love this time of year. From a traditional, spiritual standpoint, we’re reaching the end of the anticipation of Advent and we are...

My initial post about the pros and cons of an MFA has continued to draw a lot of traffic to my blog, which tells me this is one of those...

Warning: This installment of the Three Minute Writer is more like four and a half minutes long. I’ve talked on the blog, here, about...

People ask about my process when they find out I’m a writer. “What does that look like? Do you sit at the computer all day?” Yes. Some...

This is one of those blog posts that may be more for my own benefit than it is a post for you, the reader. (You can read it, though. I...

Strategic planning. Sounds stuffy. Like it comes from corporate America. Like something that is the polar opposite of creativity and the...