Writing

(This post appeared yesterday on my other website and is slightly edited.) Visionary futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard believes December 22, 2012 is a day to celebrate. And she's doing so big time on what she calls Birth Day – the day after the...

To all writers - be you a novelist, journalist, PR-expert, or writer of Christmas letters - I think you'll get a kick  out of the Bla Bla Meter to "unmask" your writing style. Yep, it detects how much "bull" hides in your text. Bla...

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln My Indonesian ‘dress cut’ experience I took this seriously last year; breathing some life into areas that have been dormant, neglected, or otherwise overlooked.  Another year of happiness, laughter and lessons learned...

Can't say I'm sad to see you go, November. Photo credit.The bad news up front: I did not meet my NaNoWriMo goal of writing 50,000 words during the month of November. (Sad face!)I could tell you about the 10 days I lost due to conference travel, head co...

On a continual basis, the educational institutions in this country are questioned, attacked, and vilified. There seems to be a need to deny that there is much of a pay off in educating as many people as possible. It isn’t a particularly new or mind bending debate. Where there are students and schools, there...

Welcome back to me and to you and to anyone else who cares to join us. We are making the most of midlife together--because that's the only way I know how to do it.

When writing a post recently for Visionary Fiction Alliance about the relevance of visionary fiction in today's world, I realized how important "story" is to our lives.   +Freedomby ~myonlyexceptionisyou I'm not just talking ...

On a recent television newscast, parents in a California school district were briefly interviewed about their child starting what is known as transitional kindergarten. A little background is helpful here. California has started pushing back the date when children attending public school have to be 5 years old prior to starting kindergarten. In 2014,...

The equivalent of my "I voted" sticker, thankyou, Starbucks. I do question the sentiment,however. For the first week of November, I noticed that nestled between political links and lamentations on Facebook were little glimpses of gratitude. Severa...

I have said "F*** it" and am filling black bags with all manner of Stuff. I have run out of black bags. I am also running out of air...because I keep forgetting to breathe.