A Pocketful of Crackers

Sometimes you find yourself creatively incapacitated, painfully aware you only have yourself to blame.

Context and Counterarguments

When everyone has access to the information, everyone is empowered and justice becomes not only tangible, but attainable.

Mad-Hatted Mischief

Online, your audience is only limited by your bandwidth

But sometimes, just when you’re prepared to take down a trolling commentator or other various troglodytes, the comments streams overwhelms you. Could all these people really believe the idiotic things they’re writing? Could there really be this many racist, homophobe misogynist ass-wipes in the world?

Speak Up Already!

As I get older, I realize more and more that the ability to speak your mind is at the heart of living authentically. We must, in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, “do the thing that must be done.” We must tell the truth even if it hurts. We must speak our minds, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Musings on the Golden Hour

I’ve talked before about taking time-outs to fill up the creative well, and federally recognized holidays are always a great time to cash in some vacation days and take much needed time off.

Deserts of Self-Delusion

For those of us plagued with an overactive imagination, life is full of sidetracks and embellishments.

the daily creative writer

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed…”