The last time I spent time with my Dad, before the end, was around June 5, 2011. He had just recovered from surgery, and I wanted to see him and spend a couple of days with him. We went to Chicago Street Deli in Shawnee, Oklahoma, I took a huge coffee to go. He drove us to the part of […]
Whenever I want to type, “last year was challenging,” I always feel the need to write about the year before that for context, because that year was challenging, too. But then that year requires the previous year for context, and so on. I have to go back to when my life went from manageable and relatively calm to one filled
In the early 1990s, George R.R. Martin (GRRM) called it quits with Hollywood and hunkered down at his home in New Mexico. He was tired of being told to cut his scripts down, and he wanted to write a sprawling epic that was not constrained by budgets or other meddlesome hands. He began to write his A Song of Ice
I mentioned in my last post on this blog that I would be moving all topics related to my job as a freelance copywriter and editor to a new blog. That worked out; I wrote several blog posts on copywriting or editing topics. But I wanted to also write about the films I saw or stories I read, or I
Happy Almost New Year! I’ve made some changes to my business. Enlighten Writing is now the home of my freelance writing and editing business. All of this blog’s posts currently exist at the Enlighten Writing site. So … what to do with this blog? Honestly, I’m not sure right now. The site that bears my name is now a showcase
Although Twitter and Facebook dominate the blogging and sharing spaces in our lives, there is something pretty special about blog memes. A typical blog meme entails some kind of a list, then you “tag” your friends, ask them to make their own lists, tag more friends, and so on. I fondly remember a few blog “meme tags” when I was
Just a note that Caitlin Lilly wrote a great blog post about standing apart and staying true to your beliefs. It’s kind of a springboard from my blog post about music. Check it out!
As a freelance writer near Portland, Oregon, I appreciate songs that are powerful and meaningful. Portland is a music-loving city. And, of all the content in the world, nothing brings people together or tears them apart more than a song. Many of my friends, past and present, would happily classify themselves as music elitists. I’m firmly in the “I
I was tagged a few weeks again by my friend and freelance writer Natalia Sylvester to participate in the “7 Links Challenge,” which highlights previous blog posts. And here is the fruit of my, er, labor. Away we go! 1. Most Beautiful Post: I really like the blog post from February 15, 2010 (my birthday) where I talk about re-starting
I had an entire post written about the day 10 years ago, but I’ll save it for another time. This post at the The Brand Builder Blog says it well.
There is a subset of fantasy literature called Big Fat Fantasy (BFF). Or door-stoppers … because they look like this. My first foray into BFF territory was Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I really enjoyed that series until Jordan created way too many plot, sub-plot, sub-sub-plot, and sub-sub-sub plot threads. I gave up on that series in 2000. I
