For Real, What Should You Pay a Professional Writer?

When I shop online for shoes, clothes, electronics … even hotels or housewares … I select the filters that allow me to look at the most expensive items first. I typically want to know what the best in the category looks like. Once I do that, I may attempt to do a little comparative shopping […]

Kids’ Writing Camp…Anyone?

Loved this piece in the Trib yesterday. It’s calling me to start a children’s story telling camp or writing workshop of some type. But would anyone choose writing over fishing or baseball or soccer? I could incorporate art, photography, hikes, and so much more. Parents, please provide some insight. What age would be best? How […]

On Writing

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”  – Samuel Beckett “Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.” – Harper Lee “When I finally write […]