photo of the day

(Photo by Steve Rawley) I was leaving work the other day and saw a man bent over the parking strip next to an apartment complex, busily taking photos. There were several crazy mushrooms like this one. I thought they were his props and started looking for the garden gnomes. A little kooky, dude, but to …

“Ambition,” by David Whyte

(Photo by Steve Rawley) “Ambition is frozen desire, the current of a vocational life immobilized and over concretized to set, unforgiving goals. Ambition abstracts us from the underlying elemental nature of the creative conversation while providing us the cover of a target that has become false through over description, over familiarity or too much easy …

photo of the day

(Photo by Steve Rawley) From our garden. “As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.” — Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

photo of the day

Because playing hockey, playing sax, writing, working, being a dad, being a husband, writing, editing/designing/producing my books, playing piano, taking care of the cats, working, biking, playing table tennis, building things, gardening, working some more, and everything else the Renaissance Man does apparently was not enough… …my husband took up drumming a year or two …

playlist for my Grandma

Did you notice how Josh Turner flips upside down briefly in that clip? Not all of us are gifted at production, just sayin’. More on that later. So. Writing. Writing is not that tough, if you know how to do it. Which I don’t, really, but that’s not the point. Writer’s block? Yeah, I’ve heard …