I made this video last night to speak about how we can find happiness even when we’re sad, grieving, scared, traumatized and in pain. Please folks, instead of watching negative and scary news this evening, please watch this 11-minute video and please share it with your friends. We need to focus on counting our joys as we’re sorting through this pain we’re in–it is the joy that really can help us heal. Finding Joy Amid Grief YouTube Video Please share [...]
A day ago, I read about Rehtaeh Parson and made a video in which I vow that I won’t be quiet anymore. This video has already gotten 320 views and I am sincerely hoping it gets a whole lot more. I know a lot of people who really need to hear this message, if not from me, then from someone else. An excerpt follows. This scares the hell out of me, that we keep it all to ourselves. We’re so [...]
I wrote the following last week . . . _______________ I’ve been thinking about my presence on Facebook. As my page has gotten bigger, I’ve met more and more lovely people. Unfortunately, a few folks have said some unkind, sarcastic or even abusive things on my page. It got so bad the other night that I thought about changing the way I talk to you. Maybe, I thought, I should try harder to build an audience of potential readers by [...]
I learned a little about the way I write this last week. I like juggling several projects at once right up until the irreversible moment when I hit terminal mental velocity. Then I drop all the balls and hide under the mountain of laundry piled on my bed, whimpering. It turns out that I write query letters and synopses in a state of complete and utter distraction. To get in the mood to write something technical, which a synopsis is, [...]
As my Facebook newsfeed fills with snarky barbs, I sigh and fantasize that the 2012 Presidential Election on the sixth of November has already passed. I could write about the decline of manners; after all, it’s a time-honored pastime to lament how nasty elections have become. The problem with this focus on the decline of manners is that it ignores just how rude, if not downright defamatory our American forebears were when engaged in political debate. Take the Presidential Election [...]