This is the 4th or 5th time I've started this post today. I really wanted to write something about choosing for ourselves – basically exploring the dichotomy between what we think we want and what we really need. I've been leaning into asking myself, "What do…
Wooo! What a ride things have been lately. The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind as I've prepared for the Hollywood networking party I went to last night. I'm hella tired. Went to bed super late – mostly because I was buzzing from an excess…
This wrap up is a bit tardy. I spent much of yesterday traveling from Sacramento to West Hollywood and settling in. See, I've been invited to a swanky pre-Oscars Networking soiree. The last few weeks have been prepping for that. I've completed the third draft of…
This one's going to wander around a bit before I get to the point. I'm learning my limits. Right now in my DBT classes, we're going over radical acceptance. That is, accepting the facts of reality as they are rather than how we fear…
Well... it certainly has been a couple of weeks, and this on feels a little odd, because I'm writing it directly into the computer for the first draft rather than writing it by hand into one of my journals first. Most everything I do is longhand for the…
I'm tripling up this week with various media that shaped my youth. These are all things that I loved as a child and in my teens. Each property in these lists profoundly affected me, and I can still feel many of the fingerprints smudged across my current creative…
Today I'm sitting in a coffee shop after my weekly trauma therapy group. Thoughts of kindness in all its various forms have been bouncing around in my head since I woke up this morning. Courtesy. Grace. Care. Gentleness. Compassion. As Patton Oswalt tells us, "It's…
It's a special two-for 10 for Tuesday this week. We're going to start with my top 10 nerdy gatherings and then I'll recount my best moments last week at LTUE. I'll go deeper into this this Friday on the Hardcore Fanboy Podcast.…
I'm writing the majority of this on my flight back to California after speaking at the Life, the Universe, and Everything Symposium. First, I want to shout out to my crew, Rook and Sable, for braving the elements and the long drive, bringing my books across three states…
With the popularity of the new print version of First Chosen I got a bunch of questions down at the Escondido Renaissance Faire about being a writer. The two most frequent being variations of: "Why do you write?" and "Where do you get your ideas?" I&…
