This is the latest installment of the “lessons learned from failure” series. You’ll find links to related posts at the bottom of this one. ****** Fifteen years ago I had a story I wanted to tell the world about my life. It was the story of how moved from Texas to the Pacific Northwest to […]
Have You Hugged a Zombie Today?
Last fall, because of the Twitter buzz among my friends, I started watching The Walking Dead on AMC. This was a completely new genre for me. I can count on both hands the number of horror films I’ve watched from beginning to end. When I was kid I went to the movies with a friend […]
October 25, 2011 by 16 Comments
I Love Ballads
When I finally got on Spotify this week, the first song I looked up was El Paso by Marty Robbins. When I was a kid I had a cassette of his Cowboy ballads. I wore it out. I had just about every song memorized. I can still sing most of El Paso, but not without […]
July 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
One Reason Your Jokes Bomb
The speaker steps to the podium and begins. “Good Evening. It’s great to be here tonight. By here, I mean up here on this stage. I have sat where you all are sitting many times and wondered what it would like to stand up here and look out at such a crowd. Now that I’m […]
January 20, 2011 by 4 Comments
Lost in Thought
I stayed up late last night watching it and woke up early this morning thinking about it. Of course I’m talking about the Lost finale. If you’re not a Lostie then you can stop reading now. If you haven’t seen the finale yet, you probably ought to bookmark this post and move on as well. […]
May 24, 2010 by 8 Comments
Why Do Storytellers Embellish?
If you’ve ever tried to tell someone a story about a memorable personal experience, you know how difficult it can be to communicate the event in such a way that the listener experiences a similar impact. Thus the phrase, “I guess you had to be there.” In order to overcome this obstacle, a good storyteller […]
March 3, 2010 by 6 Comments
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