Morning In Hillcrest

Morning Pages at the Starbucks and I'm needing to wake up. I'm lucky the barista with the short hair and jean shorts remembered my name and order. Because without her help, I would've forgotten why I was here. Now, in this early morning, I sit at a bar height table in the corner of the…

Sometimes

Sometimes you don’t get to write something amazing. So you just write words on a page. Sometimes there isn’t glorious inspiration buzzing from your fingertips. So you just write words on a page. Sometimes you don’t have the time, or the mental power,  to write something deep, fantastic or thought provoking. So you just write…

Feel Like A Writing Failure Today?

Because I do. No, I don’t know why. But there’s that ominous feeling again. That voice in the back of my head, that is all too happy to take residence all up in there. “You suck!” It tells me. “Why even bother?” “You don’t know what you’re doing.” Creatives know the feeling. I believe everybody…

How Many Actors Does It Take?

You've heard those jokes. The ones with the lightbulb. Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?                                                      A: Only one, but the bulb has got to WANT…