We’re in Hawai’i. Really Hawaii. The Big Island. I’m here as guest author at the Hawai’i Preparatory Academy in Kamuela. Our friend, David Giff, is the lower school librarian. David is a former Oregonian who used to teach at Oregon Episcopal Academy, one of my favorite schools. (Every school I visit is a favorite school, [...]
While surfing around late at night I came upon an interview with James Cameron, director of Avatar. I haven’t seen the film yet, but this quote is memorable. I have to share it. Cameron says, “Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Don’t put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you…failure [...]
There’s a Bob Dylan song, whose title I don’t remember, with a line that goes like this: “Something’s happening/But you don’t know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?” That’s how I felt this morning after I fed the cats and sat down to read the New York Times. There were several important articles today relating [...]
I’ve gotten a number of emails from readers who follow my blog asking what’s happening with The Snake. For those who don’t know, that’s the title of the manuscript I was working on last year. I blogged about it as I wrote it. I wanted to show readers how an author—or at least this author—wrestles [...]
