Monthly Archives: October 2025

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”   Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde is a favorite of mine and today. October 16, is his birthday. I love and admire his amazing range: He could go from 0 to 60 in a heartbeat, … Continue reading →

“Strategy smategy” — that’s what a classic entrepreneur I once knew used to say whenever anyone talked to her about having some kind of plan instead of operating by the seat of her pants. She felt her wing-it approach supported … Continue reading →

« If we do our job correctly, the reader will feel what we feel. If we cry, they will cry. If we laugh, they will laugh. If we get our hearts on the page, the reader’s heart will link with ours. ». … Continue reading →

“We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”   Oliver Wendell Holmes October 13 is the official Columbus Day— so a nautical theme seems apt. Oliver’s words inspired … Continue reading →

To an Isle in the Water Shy one, shy oneShy one of my heart,She moves in the firelightPensively apart. She carries in the dishes,And lays them in a row.To an isle in the waterWith her I would go. She carries … Continue reading →

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.       “However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering … Continue reading →

While wandering hither and yon, I’ve happened upon a cornucopia of wonderful thoughts and sayings I wanted to share to uplift us all: From my hometown of Montclair: Play is the highest form of research.”  Albert Einstein “Money, is like … Continue reading →

“As a fiction writer you will often be working through ‘some observing consciousness.’ Yet when you… ask readers to step back and observe the observer — to look at rather than through the character — you start to tell-not-show and rip us briefly out … Continue reading →

Remember Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land;When you can no more hold me by the hand,Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.Remember me when no more, day by day,You tell me … Continue reading →

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”Frederick Douglass “I wish you a wrestling match with your creative muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria and … Continue reading →