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Keeping up
Well, so much for keeping up with daily blogs. I had an unscheduled blog I had to craft for a client and took longer than I thought. I now find myself in Lansing and took time reading. I know, weird. You'd think I'd be reading all of the time, but I'm very careful...
Ending the paralysis
After one of the most eventful and fulfilling years of my life in 2017, including a new grandson, it's now time to end the paralysis of inaction in 2018. I believe I've become complacent in my life, which isn't a bad thing, in fact it's been peaceful, but after...
Jesus Walked Down My Alley
After months away, I have finished the draft of my third novel in a year, "Jesus Walked Down My Alley" and am happy to say, it's everything I wanted. The uses of the Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John references were fun and inventive, and best of all, the tensions between...
Dank and dreary
Why is it when the weather turns dank and dreary so does the mind? As I age into what I believe to be some of the best years of my life, and am experiencing one of the truly best years of my life, I do understand, now, how the lack of sunshine and the amount of...
Mourning Before Death: The Penny
Over the last 5 years, I've spent thousands of hours researching and writing "The Penny," and while it continues in review, there is sad news: "Frank," who in real life is my father-in-law, Henry "Bud" Harper, is dying; so, I am officially mourning before death. He is...
A Day in the Studio
My days are most often filled with calm and contentment especially when it's a day in the studio. The colors around Little Traverse Bay have been at a peak, and even while the gale winds of November arrive early and blow waves fifty feet into the air at the...
Serendipity
Most everyone I have met in my writing career has come to me by way of serendipity. That is to say, I started a writing career on my own, with no mentor, no history, and no connections, and at each turn have found someone who leads me around the next blind corner....
Writing from the heart
Writing from the heart has become a persistent method for me. In my journalism, in my blogs, and in my novels, writing what I know and feel is a joy. The task of learning the craft of writing, while difficult, and the evolution of the results has provided evidence to...
We are All Connected
Over the month, I've been editing and rewriting my next novel, "The Penny," and I've come to believe, even more, that we are all connected. In "The Penny," there is a thread of two lives that stream together over many years, and as their lives intertwine, the...
The Loss of Civility
In our little corner of the world, vacationers flock by the thousands growing our tiny hamlet from about 6,000 people in the winter to around 50,000 in the peak of the summer - but why the loss of civility? Those are just the folks returning to resorts and vacation...
The Waiting Game
So, I have one book in review and another in edit, thus I play the waiting game. I am encouraged and delighted that my work has found its way to people who would like to absorb the words and understand the person behind the construction. I am reveling in the fact that...
Search for God
In my everyday search for God and a connection to this Earth, our Universe, flora, fauna, and mankind, I have become very aware of a subtle change in my approach to finding that serenity. I have found it less about a God like figure and more about the reality of what...