So yesterday I interviewed a very high level entertainment executive. If I told you who he was, you would know him immediately. It was an easy ten minute phone interview. We had a pretty solid pre-determined message we needed to … Continue reading Success and Humility
I don’t have an office. I’m a writer without a desk. This is not by choice. It just has to do with the way things work out in my house. It’s a bustling place, brimming with energy, and the full … Continue reading Today
There’s a famous story they tell about training an elephant. If you’ve ever seen a trained elephant, you will see this massive elephant is kept at bay by an ordinary tent stake. Now, obviously this animal could with a simple flick … Continue reading Elephants and Consumer Outrage
We’ve all heard it, “You can’t change your past. You can only change your future.” And at a very base level, that’s true. But, lately, I’ve been thinking about this. We have our lives laid out in a linear fashion, ahead and behind us. Today, yesterday, last month, last year, the ’90’s….And it lives in our minds like a running story of our lives. But, the truth is, the past doesn’t exist. The only place the past exists is in our heads. Continue reading How to Change Your Past
About two years ago, I wrote a novel. And a new part of my life started. At the time, I thought it was a great book—a story that needed to be told. It is a good story, don’t get me … Continue reading The Shy Author Syndrome
I know why those marriages on reality shows always fall apart. You can take an otherwise good, or at least decent, marriage, and put them on TV, and by the end of it, they are an angry, bickering mess. Which, … Continue reading Living in Community and the Curse of the Reality Show Marriage
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