
"Precious" Should Move Us to Action...
Like thousands of others, I went to the movies last Sunday afternoon to see the much-talked-about “Precious.” And like those other viewers, I...
Favorite City: Washington, DC - The Pinnacle...
What do you think of when you read the word "power?" Power of the military? Power of positive thinking? Well, I associate the...
Stories
Recently, I have been fine tuning a class I teach on the power of story and the art of storytelling. Stories not only...

Art of War: NaNoWriMo edition
All I remember from Sun Tzu's Art of War (which I read in college) could be summed up with two points:Have good advisors.Don't...
WHEN I WAS A KID - Six
WHEN I WAS A KID - Six Veterans DayWhen I was a kid, the significance of Armistice Day, now Veterans Day, was not...
Indiscipline, or the Ten Thousand Things
It's terribly slow going. Only 2500 words so far, mainly due to the infamous "Ten Thousand Things" that are distractions. What I have...

Sometimes...
I wonder how things may be or could have been. Maybe to experience life in someone else's shoes to experience a different perspective....
Publisher Advances
I've been speaking to a lot of authors lately, successful ones who make their living writing. Some of them make a pretty good...

Becoming the Monster
You can tell kids there are no such things as monsters. But you'd be lying. Let's be honest for a change, for the...
Overheard In the Red Room
"I need (books) the way arteries need blood, the way teenagers need Twitter, the way the BBC needs Helen Mirren."
-- Kyla Perry

- [Talia Carner 11/21/2009 - 1:38am]
It was indeed great to hear that I am not the only one who thinks...Read More »
- [Deborah Teramis Christian 11/21/2009 - 12:46am]
What a thoughtful and thought-provoking post.
Thank you for that concise yet moving summary of...Read More »
- [Michael Pokocky 11/21/2009 - 12:31am]
My earliest recollection of leaning toward writing was when I wrote an essay for Remembrance...Read More »
- [Abe F. March 11/21/2009 - 12:04am]
Roda,
your analysis of Peace is full of life's experience and reality.
I enjoyed it.
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- [Yuma Michaels 11/20/2009 - 11:59pm]
You're right! The right and the left are sounding more alike in the narrowness of...Read More »


















