First Blog

After a long hiatus, I am writing again. It has helped to have the support of friends like John Rember and Michael McMillan, and also to have the out-of-the-blue support of Stephen Parrish, who contacted me one day to introduce himself and ask if he could publish some of my writing on his blog. I was flattered...and encouraged...and ultimately motivated to start writing again.

In the days and weeks to come, I plan to write about writing (and not writing), to share some of the stories and essays I write, to point toward the good writing of others, and to maybe also share some videos based on my stories and essays. I am particularly excited about the videos. My friend, Michael McMillan, and I have been talking a lot lately about how to communicate with people at a time when the book publishing industry "model" is essentially broken. There has to be a better way. Blogging is one way. Producing and sharing short videos is another. The video is a gift to readers and viewers. If they like it, the hope is that they will be interested in receiving and seeing more videos and other works by the author. I hope you'll be one of those people. I'll do my best to tell you some good stories.