Monthly Archives: December 2023

Song Under the greenwood treeWho loves to lie with me,And turn his merry noteUnto the sweet bird’s throat,Come hither, come hither, come hither!Here he shall seeNo enemyBut wind and rough weather. Who doth ambition shunAnd loves to live i’ the … Continue reading →

Here’s a definition of an entrepreneur that I love: an entrepreneur is someone who will go over, under, around, and through any obstacle they encounter on the path to realizing their dream. Obstacles actually ignite their ingenuity — their inner … Continue reading →

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”   Willa … Continue reading →

With the holiday gift-giving season in full swing, the list of clever gifts for writers is getting longer and more gimmicky by the minute. There are special stylus pens that act like pencils and never need to be sharpened, mugs … Continue reading →

As I concentrate on each word of this thought, ‘now’ slips by me into the past. My past, then, is nothing more than a history of how well I dealt with each irretrievable ‘now.’ So if yesterday is history, tomorrow … Continue reading →

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was a young man just starting his career, he was fired from his government job at the local custom house. He returned home in despair. His wife listened sympathetically to his tale of looming tragedy, then lit … Continue reading →

The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he … Continue reading →

George Bernard Shaw was a Renaissance man of the old school: a pungent playwright, acerbic critic, and vigorous political activist. His plays are still widely performed and one of them, “Pygmalion,” went onto become the ever-green, ever-popular musical, “My Fair … Continue reading →

A mini-vacation — sometimes in the midst of an intensive push forward on a project, you need to take a break; the trick is to give yourself a breather without losing momentum. I’ve learned that, for me, the best way … Continue reading →

“Good writing consists of trying to use ordinary words to achieve extraordinary results.”James Michener Ordinary words achieving extraordinary results: What better example can there be than “Trees” by Alfred Joyce Kilmer, whose birthday is today, December 6? I think that … Continue reading →