The Right Race
"Keeping Up With The Joneses" was a comic strip in the 1920s. America was dancing through an economic boom. The middle class was growing,...
How to Stop Time
Americans today are mesmerized with the idea of living a long life. The world average life expectancy in 1900 was 31 years. By 2014, it...
Modern Pharisees
In Ancient Israel, to be a Pharisee was to hold a position of power and prestige. They were the ones people turned to for guidance. They...
This Little Inch Worm
By definition, inch worms don't travel the world. They move one inch at a time. They seem to be a bit like the tortoise, slow and steady....
What's In A Name
How do you choose a title for your work? I'll admit, I'm weak when it comes to choosing titles. My blog titles especially. I had a short,...
A Squealing Recorder
Facebook reminded me today of a post from two years ago. I had written that my young neighbor, probably a second or third grader, had...
You Are Exactly Where You Thought You Would Be
If you had asked me when I was a child, what I wanted to be when I grew up, teacher and writer would have been on the list. I am nothing...
Between Friends or Enemies
As writers, we want to engage our readers quickly and consistently throughout the work. We want our readers to become emotionally...
Never Alone
Nearly 500 years ago, poet John Donne wrote the famous lines: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the...
Chain Repair
I don't wear much jewelry, but I imagine if you have a necklace of your mother's and the chain breaks, you'll take it to a jeweler and...
