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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 […]


October 14, 2012

Write What You Know. Or Not.

If you’re a writer, then you often hear advice, solicited or otherwise, on what that means. The people who haven’t written a thing since mandatory high […]
July 6, 2012
Mark Winegardner

Meeting the Man Whose Book Changed My Life

    Mark Winegardner & ‘Crooked River Burning’   Once in a while you read a book and something within you changes. Maybe you gain a […]
May 20, 2012
Cleveland pub

Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 4: Meeting Sean

“Come over to the window, my little darling, I’d like to try to read your palm. I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy […]
February 20, 2012

How Do You Know If You’re a Writer?

These days, so very many people come to me and say that they want to write something – a book, a screenplay, a blog, a song […]
February 3, 2012
Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 3: Meeting Jacob

“Hearts flutter and race, the moon’s on the wane Tarts mutter their dream, hopes the night will ordain Come schemers and dancers, cherry delight As a […]
January 22, 2012
Cleveand Alley

Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 2: Meeting Marianne

“cleveland – there are parts of me you will not understand for centuries.” – e.i. levi, 1968 Chapter 2: Meeting Marianne Song Selection: Dan Auerbach – Mean […]