My surf-themed dramatic novella "The Rise and Fall of Piggy Church" has been optioned for feature film development by Los Angeles filmmaker Madeleine Farley, who plans to shoot the picture on location in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Industry veteran … [Read more...]
Documentary film released! To show at Golden Isles Film Festival
Documentary film "No Bats" released on YouTube Award-winning Los Angeles documentarian Madeleine Farley has released the inspiring story of the No Bats Baseball Club's 35 years of charity benevolence as a half-hour film documentary. Titled "No Bats" … [Read more...]
What the Heck Have I Been Up To?
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 … [Read more...]
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
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 … [Read more...]
Getting a New Job — a guidebook to help you win!
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 … [Read more...]
Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)
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 … [Read more...]
Lucas Goes to Cabo (comedy novella)
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 … [Read more...]
My Life Skills & Business Books: the what & why of each
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 … [Read more...]
The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
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 … [Read more...]
“The Box” —- What’s in Yours?
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, … [Read more...]