Creating Things That Are Very Imperfect
What concepts might help someone be more creative? Do you wish you were more creative? Creating things for others is important – even when you know what you will create will be imperfect… Read More
Category Archive: Writing
For Writers: There Is No “One Best” Writing Checklist
I write on days when I don’t feel like writing. This is because I write primarily to please others. In this modern age of a “30 second news cycle,” where the “biggest” stories seem to come in… Read More
A 3-Step Creativity Program
1) Create something for the pleasure or benefit of yourself or others. 2) Find someone else who is creating something for the pleasure or benefit of others. Support their creativity. 3) Rest and… Read More
The Skinny
Whether a person has an eating problem (too much, wrong stuff, or too little), or a problem with prescription drugs, or they destroy parts of their life because of their preference for alcohol… Read More
What Did Roger Ebert Do With His Life’s Work?
When today I heard Roger Ebert died, I cried and cried. The above image is the self-portrait he took the day before he knew his face would forever be different after having a portion… Read More
What Is The Best Relationship Advice Someone Gave Me Recently?
Do you struggle with relationships? Are you at ease in the company of others? Or do you often look to get away from social situations, preferring to not have to parry through potential… Read More
Endings, With Their Cognitive And Concrete Limitations And Self-Fulfilling Tragedies
If I could tell the world just one thing today, if I could only discuss one topic I thought may be worth more consideration, it would be this: I finished reading Patrick Rothfuss’… Read More
For Writers: How Do You Know You’ve Written Something Good?
Questions . . . Do you know you have written something good when many people have read it? When many people tell you they agree with you? When they compliment you? When they re-read it? When… Read More
If I Knew How To Do More Good, I Would
Have you ever wondered?: What goes on in the mind of someone who regularly thinks: It would be a good idea to write posts about sexuality and love in the arts. Sounds pretty… Read More
500 Great Quotes: #486
“Perhaps a thing gains beauty being used.” “Perhaps a thing is used according to its beauty,” ~ Patrick Rothfuss from his book “The Wise Man’s Fear.” – - Commentary: How many different… Read More
500 Great Quotes: #487
“You’re there to curry favor. That’s the high stakes game. Besides, fortune follows favor – as they say. If you get one, you’ll have the other.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss from his book… Read More
Windows 7 & 8 Come With Capable Speech Recognition Software. And A Solution To A WordPress / IE 9 & 10 “Text Tab” Saving Problem
The purpose of this post is to help other WordPress writers. First, I’m writing this post using speech recognition software that is included in both Windows 7 & 8. As one might expect,… Read More
Patrick Rothfuss’ “The Wise Man’s Fear”
Is Patrick Rothfuss’ “The Wise Man’s Fear” as good as the series’ predecessor “The Name of the Wind” ? Yes. Enthusiastically yes. I am halfway through “The Wise Man’s Fear.” For whatever reasons, this… Read More
The Marvel Way
For those of us that have followed the history of Marvel Comics for a long time, Sean Howe’s new book tells more specifics about the general information we already knew. And unfortunately, a… Read More
200 Movies That Changed My World: #198. Looper – If Could Go Back In Time And Kill Hitler When He Was A Young Boy, Would You?
This is a review of the 2012 film “Looper” starring the extraordinary actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, and Emily Blunt, written and directed by Rian Johnson. This review is part of a… Read More
Sexuality In Art And Real Life Relationships
I watched the 2012 film “Nobody Walks” this evening. As the title may imply, the heavy-handed, fairly one-sided moral of that story is: If you have sex with people other than the only… Read More
Theaters Of Kindness
Tonight, I saw in our area’s weekly newspaper that a local 32-year old small theater was having a fund-raising Mardi-Gras “casino night” event. I have several soft places in my heart for live… Read More
Trying To Understand Why She Left You
“That’s the crazy thing about it is: Breaking up with someone is literally the most common thing. Like everyone you know broke up with everyone they ever dated . . . until maybe… Read More
Understanding Wealth – A Letter To My Father’s Grandchildren
This is a letter I wrote to my father’s grandchildren today: As you may know, my father left my mother and me when I was about 3. That’s when the physical separation occurred. Other kinds… Read More
People Who Are Consistently Kind Tend To Attract Kind & Giving People
Building off of yesterday’s post about considering the needs of the many rather than just the needs of a few or just one, and a post series that began with a post about a… Read More
The Many, The Few, And The One
“The needs of the many outweigh . . . the needs of the few . . . or the one” ~ Star Trek II. Building on ideas from yesterday’s post, when I encounter someone… Read More
You Get To Choose Your Instruments
And you get to choose how your instruments are played. If you want your life’s work to be an instrument of enduring love, you will likely receive enduring love in return. If you… Read More
What Can You Learn That Will Profit You? #3 – Why Pursue Education?
Sometimes it is important for certain things to be said publicly. Often it doesn’t matter who says them. It’s more important that someone says them. – - The importance of trying to educate yourself… Read More
