Are you Santa Claus?

wil i be ok?   Yes, but you’ll have to take active steps. Don’t be embarassed to ask for help. Get a friend & make a plan. Distract yourself from grief by staying active with friends & hobbies. Above all, don’t forget to LOVE YOURSELF!

How do you know when to give up? Wheel Questions was a financial failure in 2009. But it was a community success. And I’m not yet out of ideas for making it work. We shall see. How do you know when to give up?   When you’ve tried hard enough & smart enough that you […]

The Wheel Questions book has 94 pages now, about two thirds text. I’ve done nothing else for 10 days, at about 9 pages a day. Following the anecdotal essay format of Robert Fulghum, the author of All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, I’m weaving in a lot of personal stories but […]

Is reincarnation real?   It’s such a compellingn fantasy that life goes on after death that people really want to believe in it. But wanting something doesn’t make it true, which is why I don’t live with a harem of supermodels who all think they were once Cleopatra in a past life. Reincarnation is just […]

Yes, I do love everyone. It’s hard to build a reciprocating relationship though when you’re spreading it so thinly and widely. I

I have 45 pages of the Wheel Questions book written now. It’s about one-third photographs of the questions written on cards. The questions are really more interesting than the answers, in my opinion, because they tell a story. Rather than include the answer side of the cards, the rest is free-flowing text, a mix of […]

It’s easy for adults to downplay or ridicule the concerns of children. At first glance, this question is cute. It would have been easy to write a humorous reply that said “Silly child! Just wait!”. But teens are people and their pain is real. I tried to give it a real answer that shows respect. […]

This card will hopefully inpsire me to write more of the Wheel Questions book today. Too bad I waited 20 years! I’m 13. Should I stop trying to write a novel and wait 20 yrs?   No. Do it now, while you’re young. Study others you look up to & make their standards of excellence […]

Yesterday, I wrote the opening chapter to the Wheel Questions book. It needed two rewrites but now it’s looking pretty good! This book thing may just work out! That’s my non-denominational winter solstice gift to myself. Oh, who am I fooling. My Christmas gift to myself. I don’t really celebrate the holiday, but Merry Christmas […]

Happy holidays, everyone. If you don’t celebrate Christmas and live near Boston, check out Johnny’s List of Weird Boston Events for some off-beat alternatives and a big list of nighttime holiday lights. Are you Santa Claus?   Ho Ho Ho! I applied but I couldn’t fit down the chimney! ——– Want daily inspiration? Subscribe! And […]