by Clifford James | Nov 4, 2023
“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God” (Sydney Sheldon). Oh where to begin? Fortunately, God let us figure out how to go from a blank piece of paper to a blank screen. I’ve spent hours in front of my blank...
by Clifford James | Nov 3, 2023
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen” (John Steinbeck). I agree that yes, my ideas are like rabbits. First I have a couple and then they multiply. But it doesn’t stop at a dozen....
by Clifford James | Nov 2, 2023
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn” (Anne Frank).When I write, I escape. I imagine that was how Anne Frank managed to survive as long as she did as she lived in imminent fear of discovery by the Nazis....
by Clifford James | Nov 1, 2023
I Need More Time. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster” (Isaac Asimov). What would you do if you only had six minutes to live? I thought about it a minute. (That only leaves 5). I...
by Clifford James | Oct 31, 2023
“I’d give you a nasty look but you’ve already got one.” I am reminded of a story told to me when I first moved south to NC some thirty years ago, about a kindly southern lady, boarding a plane in Raleigh. She has a seat in the first class section, next to...
by Clifford James | Oct 30, 2023
“Autocorrect still thinks I want to say ‘duck’ 12 times a day.” OK, so how many of us still use auto-correct? It was the first feature I turned off in my text messaging app. It serves no useful purpose other than to replace misspelled words,...
