They all met in a cliché
It’s difficult to describe just how proud I am of my kid for finishing his first novel. It’s off to be professionally edited soon. Short blog entry today, because I want to send you over…
Month: May 2012
7 Steps to Being a Fantastic Leader
Over the next few months I’ll be writing a series of posts about one of my favorite subjects: making the world a better place. I’m currently working with my editor on final edits of Saving…
Episode 3 teaser: Bob Mays and Joe Blankenship
Getting very close to finished with Episode 3. I wanted to post a short teaser, a phone conversation between Bob Mays, the mayor of Whitesville, and his brother in law Joe Blankenship. Feedback is welcome!…
Crying out for life: bullying and teen suicide
The other night, I took my son to an information session at the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell, Georgia. We took Georgia 400 up to Holcomb Bridge Road, where we passed the apartments where I’d…
When Will Insurgent Episode 3 be released?
[EDIT! It’s out now, follow the link] Okay, so according to my site stats, four separate people googled this question yesterday. So here’s the answer: I’m ninety percent through episode 3, doing a few final…
Ten Life Lessons I learned from my Awesome Kids
My last post, about racism and confronting it within ourselves, generated a lot of argument here on the blog as well as amongst my Facebook friends. This one is not so heavy. I want to…
Warning: You may be more racist than you think. Erasing the lines that divide us.
Race in America. Black and white. Christians and Muslims. Gays and straights. Rich and poor. We live in a society where we draw dividing lines based on all manner of arbitrary classifications. For most average…
Book Review: Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell
I mentioned in a blog post a couple weeks ago (about being a teenager in love) that I’ve been reading quite a bit of young adult fiction recently. I started initially because I was having…
Brief break
Taking a couple days off from blogging! I’ll be back. In the meantime, here’s one of my great and awesome kids, Amirah! She just got level 1 awards for solos in band tonight. Very proud…
Can Repugs and Libtards actually listen to each other?
We all do it. Or at least I do occasionally. That funny thing about the “other” party shows up on Facebook and we pass it along. Whatever you think of Congress, it’s a fact that…