A few weeks ago I played in this interclub golf event. The matches are on Tuesday afternoons in early summer, which should tell you right away that the men involved are not generally desk jockeys with an 8 to 5.…
I've had the cold a lot in my life. More than most, I'd say. I hate being sick, which is why I've spent a fair bit of effort to figure out what works and what doesn't. I also hate most…
I used to work at this little liberal-arts college in Wisconsin called Ripon College. Great little school with awesome people. One of their most-used phrases when talking about the value of a liberal education was that it supposedly engendered "lifelong…
Many years ago, I wrote screenplays. This was while there was an actual spec script market in Hollywood, and at the time I had a mentor of sorts who reinforced that prospect. So I wrote. A lot. And as you…
Today marks the official launch of The Perfect Generation. But it's not just the launch of a book—it's what I hope to be the launch of a long and successful career as an author. The process of writing this book was…
Many moons ago, I worked for a Fortune 50 company. One of the two most odious managers I've ever worked with decided on day one that he didn't like me, and the feeling was quite mutual. Let's call him Barney.…
"He just mobilized the English language and sent it to war." So says a rueful Viscount Halifax moments before the credits roll in Darkest Hour, an account of Winston Churchill's installation as prime minister and the fraught initial weeks of his…
On December 9, 2017, I uploaded The Perfect Generation to Kindle Scout, basically a popularity contest to try and get a legit publishing contract through Amazon's Kindle Press publishing arm. I read enough blog posts from authors who had gone through…
To this point, how writing has worked for me is that I get an idea stuck in my head. Like songs, they're sticky. Many times, they start very insistently and eventually ebb away, apparently to find someone else's brain to…
Stop me if you've heard this one: A guy walks into his job and spends half the day reading or replying to the all-comers to-do list that is email, a quarter of the day in meetings, and the other quarter…