Here is something I never knew until alerted to the fact by my friend Rosie’s recent blog post . The poem to follow was written by a man named Max Ehrmann, who lived in my home town of Terre Haute, Indiana. Whenever I come across this poem–or line from it, on a greeting card or … Read more
When I was younger, and my homework took hours, my mom would check on me as my bedtime came and went and ask, “Are you really working, or are you just suffering?” But probably I was doing both. Some of the work was my actual homework. The rest was battling my own resistance to doing … Read more
So, it had been a little while since I’d hung out with the Amazon Studios (now called The People’s Production Company) crew. Months in fact. They’ve had some stuff going on, apparently, at the corporate level, and I haven’t really been tapping my foot impatiently saying “I’m ready when you are,” because I’ve had a … Read more
So, sometime tomorrow I will find out whether I won a hundred-thousand dollar Amazon studios Annual Awards prize…or not. It’s strange to think that right now I don’t know–the outcome seems so wide open, but by tomorrow night at this time, I will know–one way or the other. My evening tonight got a little bit … Read more
So this week’s Amazon Studios blog has been dedicated to profiles about the various finalists for the annual awards. Today’s is about me. Writing answers to questionnaires can call up a fair amount second guessing…should I try to be funny? Should I play it straight? I mostly did the latter, and that is pretty much … Read more
Not half bad.Friday: I made progress on my office–the hallway is full of more candidates for the garage sale. Saturday: The afore mentioned animated gif class and lunch with friends too long neglected. Game night at our neighbors’. We played Dune, a pretty involved game, which thankfully only took three hours–it can take much longer! … Read more
Just a little update: I’m in the final five for the Annual Best Script award at Amazon Studios. The announcement happened earlier this week. My “don’t think about it” strategy was thwarted by a few things: said announcement, papers that arrived for me to sign, and the email from a freelance writer hired to do … Read more
Not unrelated to the topic of my last post, about actions and efforts and living with outcomes we can’t control: My friend Becky has been working diligently, and living with a lot of “almosts” for the last year or so. That changed this week when she won the Ohio State University Press /The Journal Poetry … Read more
So, in the first chapter of my “sharing your place” book, the author reminds us that a new habit can be established in 21 days. She also says that you should not try to change more that three habits at once, because you’ll get overloaded. Before January, I decided on my first new habit of … Read more
It’s quite important that I write now, and I’ve not really written for almost two weeks. For a while I fought it, trying to use the interstitial moments, but finally I gave in, decided to read a book on the bus for a week or so, and make up for it in this coming week … Read more