Sunday Inspiration: “The one thing you have…”
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can”. -Neil Gaiman The theme at Chautauqua Institution this past week was Play. How does taking the time to be…
Read MoreBayou Midnight
I always have fun coming up with an author’s note for each of my books. Today I’ll share my website note for Bayou Midnight, which will be at all the major online bookstores on Sunday. (It’s available for preorder, right now using that link, too.) And yes, there will be a paperback available, too. On…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: How to comfort people
David Brooks, an author and columnist for the New York Times, gave an excellent lecture here at Chautauqua last week. What I like about Brooks is that he doesn’t just write about politics but about what it means to be human. And one of the biggest challenges of being human is how to adequately help…
Read MoreChautauqua: The Most American Thing in America
According to President Theodore Roosevelt, Chautauqua, where I spend my summers, “is the most American thing in America.” President Roosevelt may well have been speaking about the traveling Chautauquas as well as the “Mother Chautauqua” planted on Lake Chautauqua in Western NY in 1874, after a period of great political crisis as well as religious…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: John Irving
“It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can’t interfere with people you love any more than you’re supposed to interfere with people you don’t even know. And that’s hard, …, because…
Read MoreBrainstorming 2018: Oh, the Things People Say
Brainstorming 2018 is now just a mish-mash of notes and ideas brewing in the head of each of the four members of my brainstorming group. But wow, did we accomplish a lot. If you’re late coming to the idea of brainstorming and what goes on, you can find lots about what we do here. Meantime,…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “You are part of their lives”
“When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they’re feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.”…
Read MoreWow, What A Week: Book Launch and Assorted Craziness
Well, what a couple of weeks. Let me bore you with the details. Long drive from Florida to New York. Arrived in New York to find substantial damage to the floors of our house by what appears to be a plumber who didn’t do his job correctly or in time. Meetings with professionals to determine…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Dads Are…
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singer of songs.
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