I learned something new about Memorial Day , a federal holiday to honor fallen US Armed Forces personnel, on the US Veterans Affairs...

READ STORY I recently heard four members of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television faculty talk about the skill...

As you know, there’s a lot of change going on in America right now. So when Ashley Holloway in Calgary, Canada, wrote an essay — “Is...

I was doing some research recently and came upon the press release about a play I wrote and that was produced in the summer of 1998 in...

Watch now! A fellow author and friend of mine, John McCaffrey , had a great idea for a YouTube podcast: ask people, “Who’s the most...

I love the earth. I love the mountains where I bike and hike, and the ocean where I surf, and the trees that shade me on my patio and the...

I’m currently writing my third book in the Mary Donahue series and it takes place in California, and specifically, Los Angeles, an iconic...

While at AWP2025 recently, a woman told me about The Story Graph and said it’s like Goodreads , the book reader/reviewer site owned by...

During the process of writing BLISS ROAD , a memoir about my undiagnosed autistic dad, I went on a mountain biking trip about two hours...

by Byddi Lee Available for preorder NOW ! Irish author Byddi Lee's BARREN ( US link , UK link ) is a wonderful mix between Jean M....

Contact EJ “If a TV show gets produced, it’s a miracle.” When EJ DeBrun said those words while speaking on a panel at the San Francisco...

"The White Lotus" season 3 I’m a huge fan of screenwriter, director, creator Mike White for what he’s accomplished with THE WHITE LOTUS ...

1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...

If you love to read books about experiences you’ve never had in places you’ve never been, and you know someone who writes, or would like...

by Cordelia Biddle LISTEN TO ME by Cordelia Frances Biddle is an amazingly inventive book! The author writes from the viewpoint of many...

When working on my memoir, BLISS ROAD ( Vine Leaves Press ), one of my early readers asked if narcissism and Autism Spectrum Disorder ...

I’m not Chinese, but for a long time now have lived in an area with a huge Chinese population and have loved the culture those in my...

I had the pleasure of interviewing author Jefferson Shupe for my uniting Americans blog, Vigilant Positivity. He wrote THE BATHWATER...

Buy NOW! I started writing THE WIND THIEF before the changing climate started bringing us the more extreme weather phenomenons of our...

I’m grateful every day for the people who write about and promote ideas that are ultimately positive for our society and world, but are...