I set my goals to make a living writing. Lord knows I have had enough life experience to write something interesting. Then I met a man who changed my life. Not in a romantic way as you probably pictured. He offered me a job. A really good job doing some kind of work that I didn't know even existed. For privacy purposes I will not go on about it but it is mentally stimulating work, a fantastic crew, and I finally feel like I belong somewhere. Everything changed as my work and training keeps me

After a busy two weeks in Scotland I have more ideas than ever and still no time to write. Scotland is amazing and the people and their history are even more enchanting and worthy of respect. I hadn't realized how much Canada is Scottish until I spent time wandering amongst the Scots. The history of what Scotland has been through in the past 1000 years would have ruined a lesser people. Yet Scotland remains entirely its own entity. There are many lessons we can learn from their history. We are

It seems to take a certain amount of courage and confidence to sit down and write. The main ingredient to writing a successful blog is to ...ahem...write. Why is it such a difficult thing when so many ideas are rattling around in my head? If I could figure out how to downsize my photos I would show you a picture of a pile of notebooks, journals, scratchpads, and sticky notes with ideas about what to write. There are 33 of them within arms reach and some of them are full. There is also that whit

The stale old problem of needing the time to start something new but not getting the time because you are still stuck on the old. It's a catch 22 stuck in time. Managing the time is a game. Try to get something done at 5 am before the world starts asking for attention. It takes me longer to get focused and organized than it does to write or read something. Amazon is about to kick me out because I have not made enough progress to sell anything. The links don't work anyway. I just need to sit dow