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Documentary film released! To show at Golden Isles Film Festival

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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” (Raising millions, helping thousands), the film is set in Dyersville, Iowa at the original movie site for Kevin Costner’s […]

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What the Heck Have I Been Up To?

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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

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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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Lucas Goes to Cabo (comedy novella)

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 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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The Pursuit of Happiness

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Do you buy this hypothesis or not? Last month Fast Company magazine published an on-line book promotion piece that claimed most of our beliefs about how to pursue happiness are wrong. If you take a look at this list and have a moment to let me know whether or not you buy what the authors are […]

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Simplified Strategic Planning: Work Smarter, Not Harder

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The American Management Association says 80 percent of strategic plans are never executed. This, of course, translates to a colossal waste of time. Our one-day workshops teach the world’s best process for quickly building strategic plans that are truly “do-able.” The method is fast, replicable, and scalable. We are also available for multi-day facilitation to assist […]

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Donald Trump’s Curious Math: Addition by Division

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As America heads into the stretch of its nomination free-for-all formerly known as presidential campaigning, the emotion of the Donald Trump candidacy deserves a bit of behavioral dissection. The flamboyant businessman is single-handedly unlocking dormant emotion and stoking frustration into activism that threatens to change us from the United States of America to the Divided […]

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