Let's make this life your best one yet. Oh, you only have one? Read on.

This is my Playground

On November 1, 2012, I was challenged to Write Every Day for 30 days. It instilled fear in my heart. Now I instill fear into keyboards and microphones and nothing can stop me. These are my stories.

How it all started.

Daring Parenting

“Oh, look how sweet Cameron looks while learning violin. In Mandarin. With his eyes closed.”

Yeah, you won’t get that. How about some of this:

What passions do you share with your kids? If you don’t know, figure it out.
Are you unintentionally giving your kids (digital) heroin? Just a little won’t hurt. Right? No, right?
The Perfect Afternoon (according to a 10-year old). Warning. It’s not pretty.

There's No Turning Back Now

Travel

Is the destination the goal? Does it matter where you’re going?

You won’t find hotel ratings in these pages. Just pure, heavy hitting travel as it happens. You might like:

Day 51: Back Home to a Foreign Country Where do we really “belong”?
I’m technically on “vacation” but I am going to sneak away to do a little “work.” All play and no work makes for, wait. Huh?
The Dutch American Friendship Treaty In case you’d like to join me.

This might not work. Try. Start. Step. Create. Publish. Ship. You can’t win if you don’t play. What do I have to lose? What do I have to gain? Let’s just see what happens. If I knew the outcome, I probably wouldn’t start. If you know who’s going to win the game, would you watch?

The thrill is not knowing who’s going to win. The thrill is not knowing who’s going to win. The thrill is the game.

Welcome to The Cream.

What am I not stepping into and why?

What am I not stepping into and why?

This entry is part 1 of 24 in the series Decide

Is it the barrier or what’s beyond?

“Someday” and “never” have the same numerical value in that they both equal zero … and other highlights from “Decide.”

“Someday” and “never” have the same numerical value in that they both equal zero … and other highlights from “Decide.”

This entry is part 2 of 24 in the series Decide

When you change your mind, your mind is changed.

What if you just don’t have the capacity to decide? What if you don’t have a prefrontal cortex? What if you’re, like, a teenager.

What if you just don’t have the capacity to decide? What if you don’t have a prefrontal cortex? What if you’re, like, a teenager.

This entry is part 11 of 24 in the series Decide

Yeah, then it’s going to be a little more difficult.

That “Free Time” you’re longing for? It’s not free.

That “Free Time” you’re longing for? It’s not free.

But it’s available.

Need to make a box set of your books? Do you have Vellum?

Need to make a box set of your books? Do you have Vellum?

It’s just that easy.

Give a Voice to Your Truth and a Truth to Your Voice

Give a Voice to Your Truth and a Truth to Your Voice

This entry is part 10 of 24 in the series Decide

… and Give Truth to your Voice

Book Workshop: Title, Subtitle, Description for Plastic Fantastic

Book Workshop: Title, Subtitle, Description for Plastic Fantastic

Let’s get a new book description in an afternoon.

The most important audiobook decision you’ll make

The most important audiobook decision you’ll make

It might not be what you think.

Ooops, need to make a change to your audiobook after it’s been published? Here’s how.

Ooops, need to make a change to your audiobook after it’s been published? Here’s how.

Well, that was easy.

It can really help to get way out of flow to figure out when you’re in it

It can really help to get way out of flow to figure out when you’re in it

I just felt it.