I once saw a Dustin Hoffman movie called “Hero.” He played a man who made the first heroic gesture of his life when he inadvertently and begrudgingly rescued passengers after a plane crash and he disappeared. It was a very popular film because everyone loves a hero....

Serve Someone Else, Serve Yourself When I was writing my book, “Memoirs of a Ghost,” I devoteda chapter to my  volunteer work at an AIDS hospice, something that changed my life. It was the late 1980’s when testing positive for HIV was a death sentence. I lost a lot of...

I was sitting at my computer for a long time this morning, wondering what to write. When I looked back over my previous blogs, I was amazed to see that to date, I had written 270 of them. I had posted one every single weekend with the exception of an emergency when...

After writing numerous bestsellers over decades and becoming a writing coach, I’ve come to believe that there is no such thing as good or bad writing. I don't think I can teach a person to write. All I can do is help them find the courage to remove the obstacles to...

I Don’t Wanna My mother taught me to be polite, to show up with a good attitude when I got invited somewhere and always reciprocate. No matter if I had a good time or not. I remember seeing her sitting on a sofa in someone’s house, looking bored and fake smiling. I...

            Writing Into the Wind    Of all the steps along the path of life, I’ve found rejection to be one of the most challenging and the most impossible to avoid. We all face judgment and rejection on a regular basis. Sometimes it hurts so much, we become afraid...