I also coach aspiring writers » contact me with questions and schedule a brief consultation!

Rap Battles Should Be the Norm

If you follow this blog and my writing here with any regularity, you’ve come across at least a couple of posts referencing the musical, Hamilton. This one will continue with that hyperfocus as my girls have come to refer to it because I have been listening to Ron...

I Tell My Stories

Perhaps I should preface this post by saying that I understand that not everyone appreciates musicals, whether on the Broadway and off-Broadway stages or on the big screen. I am not none of these people. Since my early teens, I have been fully and completely enamored...

A Safe Place in the World

Because I know I can sometimes spend too much time mindlessly scrolling through different social media feeds, I try my best to limit how often I let myself open the different apps on my phone, especially if I’m working on something like writing or if my girls and I...

Still Chasing Monsters Away

Apparently, when I was a little kid going to bed at night, one of my parents—usually my mom—had to come into my room with me, inspect beneath the covers, and smack the bedcovers along the bottom of my bed to kill the lobsters I was convinced were hiding in my bed...

Love Is Seeing Them Smile

I remember when I was growing up there was a syndicated single-panel cartoon titled, Love Is…featuring a young woman and a young man illustrating whatever the simple caption described about love. As I recalled that comic, I looked up its origin and discovered the...