Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin I had to explain to my children this year why I hesitate to drive at night. Diminished vision is hard to explain to young bright eyes. They see so much without seeing much …

Have you noticed… That when you read other people’s blogs everyone looks like they are having a really good time, all the time? Now, don’t get your hair in the air! I am not suggesting that everyone become morose… but maybe a tad more real would be nice. I am in the midst of writing …

Writing is hard. Sometimes I feel like, what the heck am I doing? What makes me think I can write? I crawl up into a ball, well, actually I can’t really crawl into a ball anymore, but I can still handle the fetal position… So I lay, tightly, in fetal position and feel pretty worthless. …

I love the writing process. We are in the middle of writing the amazing story of Anne and Mary. As we started the research we kept uncovering little nuggets of information that enabled us to get to know these women. They died over 300 years ago, but sometimes I feel like they are so alive. …

It’s tax time. For most of us that means doing an inventory, gathering information and filing. For others… well I don’t know what others do. Oh wait, I think they ignore them and hope they go away. Well, they don’t. So, please take the time and just get it done! Taxes and death, you know …

It is fun to share parts of my life with those who are interested. Fortunately Wistie is. So I took her to Park City for a day. I think she likes hanging with me… but you never know. She is honest and funny and easy going. I know I like hanging with her. She is …

This last week I experienced something I had never experienced before. I found out what it felt like to be left out, on purpose, because “some” of the people didn’t and don’t like me. I always believed if you spend the time getting to know someone you would discover redeeming qualities. I still believe that, …

After our film shoot in Africa, Cyndi approached me about creating a production company that could be mutually beneficial to each other. I told her no. She said, “ok.” And then we started working on editing the African feature, “Bad Timing.” During that process, to break up the editing stress, we wrote a screenplay called …

Did we just have Christmas? Did I miss it? I think I missed it. Although my face is showing signs of too much chocolate. So there is some evidence that I ate Christmas… We won’t even go there. Ciera has put me on a New Year’s diet. Nothing white. Already 2009 doesn’t sound all that …

I am trying … No, I am changing the way I look at things. Once upon a time I would think of ideas, stories, poetry, song lyrics, movie ideas, restaurant themes, most anything. I would dwell on this idea. It would grow in my head. Sometimes after weeks, months or years I would go to …