Philosophically speaking

When I was in college, the subject I disliked the most was philosophy.  Maybe it was because I didn’t think I would ever be taken seriously enough to have my words repeated. Author Sylvia Plath says it like this: ‘Let me live, love, and say it well in...

My favorites

Some of my favorite fiction authors include Nick Hornby, Jonathan Tropper, James Bailey and of course, Matthew Norman. These are authors I aspire to be. The challenge of course is I have a tendency to be a bit more dramatic in my writing than I perceive them to be. As...

Therapy

I find writing to be therapeutic (and I have been told by a certain few I need therapy).  Ralph Waldo Emerson said: ‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’   I have...