Apr
28
Sometimes it takes a daring spectacle…
April 28, 2010 | Comments Off
The most daring spectacles in our lives make the best creative inspirations, don’t they? For example, I recently attended the wedding of a very important ex. Someone I loved dearly, and still love, and have managed to be close friends with after all these years. It was lovely, don’t get me wrong, but it was [...]
Apr
20
Does A Watched Potboiler Boil?
April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday, as I tumbled through the rabbit hole of the interweb, I grabbed onto a root dangling from Galleycat. I skimmed some things and then the term “potboiler fiction” caught my eye and I lingered there a while. Potboiler fiction seems to be something no serious author would aspire to create, and yet such fiction [...]
Apr
14
Instant Happiness.
April 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Happiness isn’t a warm gun and it’s not created out of money, nor is based on romantic luck. According to Dan Gilbert (TED TALKS – see video below), our advanced pre-frontal cortex can synthesize happiness. So, as it turns out, we’re just as happy when our brains make us “happy” after not getting what we [...]
Apr
6
“The Swedish artist and the mermaid”: A short story you have not written yet.
April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
 ”I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.” – Franz Kafka If you peer at our world through the glasses of the folks at Atlas Obscura, life on planet earth is nothing less than an encyclopedia of wonders. Simply open the heavy cover, blow off the book [...]