New Website Launch

New Website Launch

Join me in celebrating a new milestone – I am officially announcing the launch of my new website! I’ve been wanting to give this site a facelift for a long time. With my new writing career, I decided it was time to pull the trigger. Many thanks to Amy...

Why it’s important to follow, repost, retweet etc

If you are not a writer trying to publish a book, it may not occur to you. The first thing a publisher wants to know is, What is your platform? In other words, how many followers do you have on your blog or social media. For those of you who do not know, I have...
Slightly Mighty IPA

Slightly Mighty IPA

I am on a low-carb diet trying to knock off 10 lbs. This used to mean no beer, but I remembered Michelob Ultra and I would sadly drink it when with friends, wishing I could enjoy the full flavor of regular craft beers. Well I’ve just discovered that many other...

Man, the human

Things that demonstrate that man is still human: using utensils to eat real food. Or using tools of any sorthandwriting and arithmetic, and using them to write a letter to your mother or a friend, or calculate the perimeter of your backyardlocomotion by any organic...

New Beginning

Today marks the first day of my new career as a writer, that is, not as a hobby or something to piddle around with on evenings and weekends. Today, liberated from a traditional American employment model, I now set out to discover what it means to be a professional...