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Tea Clipper Novel Status: Queries Aweigh!
Well, I’ve done it. The deed is done. I’ve crossed the Rubicon. The die is cast. Qué será será. Like a good neighbor State Farm is there. I’ve sent out […]
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The 5am Club – The Worst Book Ever Written
Due to my professional obligations, I occasionally read self-help books. Recently, it was The 5am Club by Robin Sharma, a pretty awful book by almost every imaginable metric. Look, writing […]
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Tea Clipper Novel Status: The Writing Group
I have been working on a novel about the great tea clipper races since 2008. It has been a long voyage. Lots of rewrites and editing. It seems, perhaps, finally, […]
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Some (Additional) Thoughts on Cabbage Patch’s Babyland General Hospital
Several years ago, my family and I took a trip into the mountains. We saw Helen, Georgia, a faux-Bavarian town inexplicably nestled among the southern Appalachian mountains. We visited The […]
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Why Pickles, and also, Why Blog at All?
I can hear you asking. I can hear the incredulity whirring behind your crinkled eyebrows. Why, exactly, would someone restart a blog? A blog? A web-log? You say. Seems a […]
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The Return
Well. Well. Well. Look who’s decided to post again. It has been several… years? Eight, in fact? Good lord. This site has been gathering internet dust since 2017?!? *taps pressure […]
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Reading for Unheard LA on KPCC
A couple months ago I wrote an essay for an “Unheard LA” event put on by KPCC, my local NPR affiliate. They broadcast my reading on “Take Two” a week […]
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Films For Creative Types
Artists often work alone. While isolation naturally draws introverted personalities into the richness of their inner life, it can also leave creatives feeling confused about their progress and place in […]
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Obligatory New Year’s Post: 2016 Edition
Hello again, and welcome to what’s become a tradition here at the Ye Olde Blogpostery, a look back at the recently passed year, and a glance at what’s next. 2015 was […]
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Learn to Sail LA’s Official Tall Ships (For Free!)
My love of tall ships goes back a ways, but given my recent research dive into the great tea races, it’s taken on an outsized portion of my attention lately. […]
