Cleveland

April 11, 2016

Take 5 With Award Winning Filmmaker Doug Blush

World Premier: Accomplished Documentarian Brought Beyond Laughter and Tears: A Journey of Hope to CIFF Doug Blush and I first met back in 2012 when CIFF […]
April 7, 2016

Beethoven Rolls Over to Cleveland

CIFF Welcomes What Would Beethoven Do? One of the great joys of the Cleveland International Film Festival is exposure to great culture. Mostly, this culture is […]
November 23, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #13: Writing Seminars – Part 1 – Hay House, Wayne Dyer and Cheryl Richardson

“Writing isn’t something I do. It’s something I am.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer . Along the corporate life trajectory writing has kept me consistent company, decade […]
November 19, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #12: 2013 – Sinking Ships, Cortés Style, Part 2

From January till ~ June of 2013, I lived 6 months in a monastic lifestyle: work, work out, write, sleep, repeat. Once in a while I’d […]
November 17, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #11: 2013 – Sinking Ships, Cortés Style, Part 1

2013 built on the loss of 2012. And more was to follow. Pruning the dead leaves of one’s life is a critical component to letting the […]


September 24, 2014
Hawk

Rosh Hashanah: The Old, The New, The In Between

Rosh Hashana this year sprung out of nowhere. Like a surprise newspaper headline that tells you what you already knew yet still surprises you, the New […]
August 25, 2014

Career TOOLBOX #37: 10,000 Hours – How a Local Band Signed a Record Deal

Kiss Me Deadly, Part One   How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.   Cleveland is a hotbed of activity for local bands. But how […]
July 27, 2014

Unpacking a Repackaged Life

Life’s Full of Options   I spent the first half of this year living out a once in a lifetime sabbatical, traveling, writing and meeting incredible […]
July 6, 2014
Home

Coming Home: 6 Months of Couch-Surfing Comes to a Happy End

And a New Beginning   This weekend marks eight weeks since I returned Cleveland. And, as I’m finally ready to move into my own place – […]
April 23, 2014
Captain America

Captain America: The Winter Soldier – How It Makes Cleveland Look

What the Marvel Blockbuster Means to the 216   “You need to keep BOTH eyes open.” – Nick Fury, Captain America: The Winter Soldier   I […]
March 20, 2014
Dubliners

5 Things Dubliners Do Differently Than Clevelanders

What Emerald City Revealed   During most of February I had the incredible experience to spend my days and nights living in Dublin, Ireland. Between places […]