Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

What the Heck Have I Been Up To?

December 26, 2025 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Top five answers: 1. Writing. 2. Editing books and screenplays. 3. Adjunct professor-ing a class of one at a British university. 4. Starring in a 28-minute documentary about my charity organization, the No Bats Baseball Club. To see it, go to YouTube and search for No Bats Baseball Club. Click on the “Documentary” link and […]

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Looking Back, Looking Ahead

May 11, 2024 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Catching Up Book promotion, teaching and consulting, researching the good and bad of Artificial Intelligence, revisiting life for a commissioned memoir, plus the creation of a challenging, complex collection of thread-connected short stories have pulled me in all directions except this one. I apologize for the lapse in blog updates. I no good reason yet […]

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Getting a New Job — a guidebook to help you win!

April 11, 2023 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Getting a New Job Last summer I was contacted eight days in a row by professionals from five countries on three continents, each asking for help during a job search. Some wanted to find a new opportunity, others had to. Their questions were different and covered the full spectrum from starting the hunt to prepping […]

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Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)

April 11, 2023 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends) Life involves chapters that advance through stages. How we see the world as a teenager is different than how we process life a generation later. This progression lured me into writing a novel centered around my favorite character, number one of all the wonderful ones I […]

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Lucas Goes to Cabo (comedy novella)

April 11, 2023 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Lucas Goes to Cabo It is harder to make someone laugh than cry, which is why I love to bring smiles to readers through character-rich ensemble comedies. Having written comedy for money since I was 17, I’m somewhat adept judging good from bad. Lucas Goes to Cabo is a good one. This “battle of the sexes” […]

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My Life Skills & Business Books: the what & why of each

November 17, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Business & Life Skills Intertwined whether we like it or not As my teaching and global consulting career has unfolded, I constantly strive to add equity to what I teach and how I teach it. These seven books are part of my intellectual property portfolio. Each serves a different learning objective. If one of these […]

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The Rising Tide of Global Sadness

November 5, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I read this piece by David Brooks recently and thought it was so timely and compelling I would share his work in its entirety. I have spent a lot of time over the past few months trading thoughts with some of my contacts around the world on this same topic. This is a thought provoking […]

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“The Box” —- What’s in Yours?

November 1, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The Box holds life’s values, choices, and experiences, its perimeter strung with lights to navigate what a friend calls “all the rest of it.” Decisions and life experiences sort and police what goes in The Box and what does not. Life would be clean, neat, and orderly if everything snuggled perfectly into an assigned place, […]

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“Getting a New Job” book release!

August 22, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Thrilled this one is out: Just as “Managing the Worry Circle” helped people around the world, so will this. For most, the worst part of a new job isn’t doing what’s required, it is finding and landing the job in the first place! Having taught and coached around the world, I have compiled an easy […]

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exciting new book release!!! “Tuki (Back in Game with Tweedle & Friends)”

August 15, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The greatest character I have ever created–diminutive Kiwi recluse Tuki Banjo–emerges from hiding twenty years after shocking the world and suddenly disappearing. For the second time in life Tuki, a full generation after she rocketed to national fame, faces a difficult life situation that forces her to get off the mat and carve out a […]

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