Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

New novel soon to be released: Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)

January 19, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Tuki Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends Exciting news! We have reached the pre-publication stage! Twenty years after shocking the world and paying a terribly unfair price for doing a good deed, Tuki Banjo battles problems and demons at a second stage of life. This story ushers us into her world, a predicament […]

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Who is in Your Hall of Fame?

January 5, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Who is in Your Hall of Fame? People are, by nature, herd animals, and as life unfolds most of us will meet thousands. The vast majority will bounce off and wash away like beach sand, but some will stick like Band-Aids. A far smaller number have lasting impact and enter your personal Hall of Fame. […]

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Catching Up As We Gladly Exit the Fun House Mirror of 2021

December 7, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I apologize for getting lost. No good reason, just a barrel of feeble excuses. Like much of the world, I’ve been running sideways, backward, two steps forward, ducking, and hopping erratically depending on the how reality dictates. Time to at least get somewhat caught up. In no particular order: Been busy on a variety of […]

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How Many Stars in the Sky?

September 10, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As the world keeps running sideways a hundred miles an hour, pausing only to take an occasional step backward, digital screens flood crowded global minds with more negative noise than positive. In America, a just announced survey reveals optimism and pessimism are somewhat evenly balanced, a shocking development to hundreds of millions who never dreamed […]

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Simone Biles & The Olympic Game$

July 28, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

American gymnast Simone Biles stands four-feet-eight inches tall. By stepping aside during this year’s overhyped money grab Tokyo and the IOC call the Olympic “Games,” she towers like a giant. Make no mistake what this fortnight of international competition bloated with made-up events detached from the competition designed by ancient Greeks truly is: a commercialized […]

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New Novel on the Way: Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)

June 25, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The elephant has been birthed: The manuscript for the follow-up to my popular novel Tuki Banjo, Superstar has been completed and is out with advance readers. If things stay on track, we hope for an autumn release. This story is not a sequel as much as it is a flash forward to Tuki’s life twenty years […]

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Second Interview with Ed Molitor’s “The Athletics of Business”

June 25, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

It’s always nice to be a guest on someone’s show, especially so when you are asked back a second time. Following my recent return to Chicago-based Ed Molitor’s interview program, here is the link: https://theathleticsofbusiness.com/podcasts/with-ted-simendinger2/ We covered many topics, including Managing the Worry Circle, pro selling, story construction and my writing process, plus the great […]

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New Novel in the Works: The TUKI BANJO follow-up

March 17, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Through the last couple decades, I have told a lot of fun stories featuring a small army of great characters. Datchet, a curmudgeonly old chap in London, was good enough Michael Caine wanted to play him on the screen if we could have raised the money to make it. Bonefish, a quirky horse with a […]

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

March 17, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The poppies just keep on growing. While the new president tries to instill a return to civility and order, the old one hopes the legal sledgehammer currently being lifted in New York somehow fails to crack open the coconut of various misgivings that will soon create an Excedrin headache all the Tylenol Extra Strength in […]

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Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace

January 5, 2021 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Whether inadvertent or stoked by emotion, conflict resolution is part of working with others. Like forest fires, prevention is easier to manage than putting out the flames. I am a big proponent of understanding what causes these issues in the first place. The genesis of heated disagreement comes from several combustable behavioral truths. Core beliefs […]

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