Some weeks are filled with excitement, others rife with drudgery. This week is a combination of both. I’m talking about duty.   Exciting drudgery. Isn’t that an oxymoron?   It’s probably right there alongside the cankered rose of Shakespearean fame, Lily. My...

Pivot! At approximately 3 PM Sunday I removed my Nellie Gilliam Day hat and laser-focused my attention on my upcoming presentation, “Myth-Taken Identities: Using the Greek Pantheon in Fiction.” There is, of course, a simpler way to say Greek Pantheon: Olympians....

Don’t look now, but as of September 22, 6:03 PM (Pacific Time) it’s fall. Yep, that’s next Thursday. I can practically taste the end of summer.   Is it kind of like apple crisp?   There’s definitely a spiciness to it, 9, crunchy grass underfoot sending up...

Just when I knew exactly what I was going to write for this week’s blog, something stunning happened. After a double workout of strength training and swimming I made a recovery snack and turned on the radio. They were saying something about Queen Elizabeth II. In...

This week is all about disruption. Monday morning at 7 AM the long anticipated landscaping crew arrived. Their mission that day was a tough one: weed the graveled strip alongside the driveway, remove a volunteer tree against the chain link fence,  remove the gravel...

  Hey, everybody, I’m in print!   What do you mean? Yeah. You look just the same as always.   It’s not about how I look, 9, it’s that something I’ve written in now in the pages of a national magazine!   Amazing. Have you hit the Big Time?  ...