Recognition
I was pleasantly surprised to receive a “congratulations” email from Writer’s Digest last month. My short film screenplay, The Bottle, won an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest 2015 Writing Competition. […]
Little Things
You’ve all heard the saying “It’s the little things in life that make us happy.” Right? Sometimes I think it should be “It’s the little things that drive us nuts.” […]
Not Fantastic, but Not Bad
I watched 20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four over the weekend. My wife and I had some pre-ticket trepidation, and went to a matinee instead of an evening show. We […]
Big Cities, Big Ideas?
I like to read a lot of what the library categorizes as “Action/Suspense.” It seems that the majority of the books I have read are set in large cities. Daniel […]
Cake
This is the cake that I didn’t eat on my vacation. This is the butter cream frosted, two layer, yellow, hand-made-in-an-east-coast-bakery-run-by-old-world-immigrants cake that I didn’t eat on my vacation. This […]
On the Use of Profanity
It seems to me that there is a significant quantity of swearing in our culture these days. Listening to casual snatches of conversations in public places, all I hear are […]
Why Johnny’s Dad Can’t Do Math
Yesterday, my sixteen year old son came looking for me. At first I thought he wanted money, which is a normal enough occurrence in my house. What he wanted was […]
Drive
When taking in a story of any sort – novel, movie, comic book – one of the questions I ask myself is “Why is (the main character) doing what they […]
Review: Lightworks
A video channel may or may not be a part of the typical writer’s social media offering. The most important challenge with video is creating a quality message that is […]
Remembering Mom
Today was a long day… we buried my mother this morning. Mom died after a nasty bout with cancer. She was one of those people who ate right, exercised, saw […]
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