Writing
I’m a writer in addition to being an editor and creative consultant, and I began being published when I was a young spoken word poet. Now I write and publish memoirs, travel and music stories, fiction, and meditation pieces. Click on any entry below or on older entry pages to read my work!
Do you need help getting where you want to go?
Where you want to go isn't necessarily a destination. It can be getting your words read or your art seen. It can be getting your team to work together with an innovative mindset or getting your band to play together at a higher level. Where do want your organization,...
Tedium 5 – Rock ‘n’ Roll Meltdown (Fiction)
The distant clouds rose up like snarling beasts curling and black. Bursts of lightning streaked across them. Electric eels swirling and dancing against the demonic darkness. It was as if the deepest depths of the ocean had become the sky and Jarette drove toward it....
What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain? (Meditation Article)
Meditating when you’re having physical, mental, or emotional pain is an opportunity for discovery. I’m in my backyard meditating on a gorgeous, early autumn morning in New Orleans. Green and lush but not too hot or humid. The heat of the bayou in the summer has cooled...
My Nights as a Club DJ in Prague in the 90s (Music Memoir)
The night the avant-garde German theater group performed at the Roxy Klub in Prague between the sets I was DJing, I knew it would get weird. When the troupe lit an explosive, and it went off in the center of the dance floor, it caused several chunks of the plaster...
A Devastating Fire Took My Childhood Overnight (Memoir)
The fire that eradicated most of what I owned when I was 15 years old was emancipation from things. I became a Minimalist with one spark of a flame. But that October day still smells burnt in my memories. It was the day my childhood ended. Walking through the...
Tedium 4 - The Ghost of Bertha and the Elephant Girl (Fiction)
Jarette drove through Sacramento quickly. He wanted to get away from the congestion, the stress, and the thickness of urban traffic. The smell of heat rose around him as morning put on her afternoon dress. He listened to no music, just the whir of the wind. The window...
The beauty of loss is the space to create something new.
Every loss is an opportunity to try again. Every failure is a chance to learn. Every time you don't succeed is a magnificent time to rethink what you want, why you want it, then go for that goal with a fresh outlook. I've failed a lot. As in fallen-on-my-face...
You’ll never know until you walk through the door.
There are many people who want to write a book, start a business, or release an album but few people do it. You may not know what to do. You're scared. You don't want to fail. Putting yourself out there is a risk. I understand. You have to step into the unknown to be...
Seven Breaths — A Simple Way to Begin Meditating (Meditation Article)
When you think of meditation what do you think of? * Is it someone sitting alone on a mountaintop with their eyes closed? * Is it a group of people sitting in a room on pillows saying, “Oooommm”? * Do the people meditating have robes on? * Are they bald or do they...
Everything from this point forward is a story we have yet to tell.
Your story from now forward will be written by you because you have more influence on your story than any force in the expanding universe. You know everything that's happened in your life up until now. The whole story was written, and as far as I know, there's no time...