Cleveland

November 13, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #10: 2012 – A Welcome Fresh Start

2012 began with life in a new, beautiful apartment, two teaching gigs, two online writing gigs and two book pursuits. Two seemed like the magical number. […]
November 12, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #9: 2011 – Time to Pivot

2011 kicked off on a gain and finished on a loss. That’s the nature of life. And that was the cycle of that year.   The […]
November 11, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #8: 2010 – A New Professional Chapter

By the time 2010 rolled around, I’d just begun writing for two publications, one for pay and one for free movie passes. Tri-C started giving me […]
November 10, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #7: Renavigating During the Chaos of 2009

2009 proved to be an interesting year. Interesting is such a broad adjective. Something people use when they don’t exactly know what else to say. Or […]
November 9, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #6: The Big 2008 Crash

“I’m the Bad Guy?…How’d that happen? I did everything they told me to.” – Bill Foster, Falling Down, 1993 2008 began as a terrific year. Just […]


January 29, 2014

10 Things I Learned About Clevelanders

What I Learned During My 10 Years in Cleveland   I arrived in Cleveland in October, 2003, not knowing a soul. I left knowing so many. […]
January 5, 2014

Secrets of the Blood: My DNA (Briefly) Returns to Chicago

“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” – Michael Corleone, Godfather 3 Transitions are never what we think they are. They are […]
December 10, 2013

Secrets of the Blood: My DNA Leaves Cleveland

It was supposed to be one year. I arrived in Cleveland in October, 2003. After accepting an offer with one of the biggest firms in the […]
June 20, 2013

Peggy Sue Got Pregnant: A Rock ’n Roll Love Story

Cleveland Musicologist Deanna R. Adams Debuts First Novel   Three years ago, while waiting in line at the Westlake Borders to meet the one and only […]
June 11, 2013

Drawn To Cleveland’s Music Scene

Ralph Solonitz is a big talent. You’ve seen his work in Cool Cleveland. And, wherever Ralph goes, he doodles. Sometimes on white paper, sometimes on a […]
April 12, 2013

Mobsters and Boxers at CIFF

The Sugar Wars & A Fighting Heart  “Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?” — Tupac Shakur Clevelanders love stories that are about […]