Ireland

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 […]


February 6, 2014

Dublin Day 2: Jameson Square

An afternoon excursion of where I’m staying. So warm. So cool. For Video Click Here:
February 5, 2014

Secrets of the Blood: My DNA Returns to Dublin

Arrived in Dublin at 6:15 this morning. The flight to get here was only 5 1/2 hours, from Newark. The road to get here was exactly […]
June 18, 2013

“No! No Exceptions! I Want This Job, I Need it, I Can Do It.”

“No! No exceptions! I want this job, I need it, I can do it. Everywhere I’ve been today there’s always been something wrong, too young, too […]
May 29, 2013

When You Ask for Something and Get It…

“When you ask for something and get it, do you wish that you would have asked for something more?” -A.S.  
May 26, 2013

There Is a Crack in Everything

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen
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 […]