I believe that good description can make the difference in a caricature verses a “person” or “place” so real we’re sad to say good-bye when the book ends
Jun 30 2014
Zombie School, OCD & How To Keep Modern Life from KILLING Us
Back in 2013 I wrote a post detailing The Parable of the King Who Forgot to Pay the Internet Bill and All The Kingdom was Super-Sad….also known as The Parable of TKWFTPTIBAATKWSS. I’ve had a lot of challenges lately. After Spawn being fired from nursery school for his over-zealous love of zombies, I’m home-schooling. Don’t …
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Jun 25 2014
What Exactly Does Facebook "Friend" Mean? The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
What is a “friend?” That’s a good question. One of my personal peeves about The Modern Age, is that English is a very rich language and too often words are employed as a synonym when they aren’t. A HUGE bugaboo? A 13 year-old girl cannot be mature unless maybe she survived a concentration camp or …
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Jun 20 2014
Free Falling, Ground-Fighting & Learning to Start Over
Like all of you, okay most…all right maybe only one or two of you, I kinda wish I had a Delorian so I could go back in time and slap myself. So many things I have done wrong, and still do wrong. I swear sometimes it is a miracle I make it to bed in one piece. This is the great thing about WANA (which stands for We Are Not Alone). We’re a club…or probably a cult.
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Jun 19 2014
Selling LOTS of Books and Why Bright Ideas Can Go BADLY
I’m here to teach how to write a commercial product, which is something consumers want to…consume. Code for “buy.” Just because we are creating something commercial doesn’t mean it is less-than or “not” art.
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