December 2020

Your 1st Free Gift is HERE. Most of the time, I can never decide which of these two contradictory quotes rings more true: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” (It’s usually attributed to him, but Benjamin Franklin never actually said it.) Or the Yiddish Proverb: “Man Plans, and God Laughs.”&n...

As is so often the case, Anne Lamott said it best: You own everythingthat happened to you.Tell your stories.If people wanted you to write warmly about them,they should’ve behaved better. And yet… I’ve guided a dozen memoir writers on their projects and this is almost always the key issue: ...

It was a long time ago, right before the era when you could look up anything on your iPhone. I was having my 7,000th conversation over a difficult breakup at a bar with a good friend. I’m not sure if he did it to be authentically helpful––or if he was just trying to distract me––but he stopped my rant,...

This happened during a near prehistoric time before GPS was a given. Just FYI, it was also my first time driving a minivan. My blood pressure soared as I desperately searched for the offices of Roger Corman, producer/director of such films as Little Shop of Horrors, Teenage Cavemen, Sharktopus, and, of...

This guided visualization meditation is 6 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes more of music by my friend David Buchs. It can be streamed or downloaded. Click toDownload