Tag: life

  • The Dreaded Blank Page

    So, you’re a writer.  See if this sounds familiar. You stare at it and stare at it, and it seems that it stares back, that blasted cursor winking at you, daring you to write something — a word, a phrase.  Anything. It’s at that point that you remember that you haven’t fed the cat in…

  • My Book for a Desert Island

    Success is as dangerous as failure.Hope is as hollow as fear.                                     –Lao-Tzu Way back in 1972, I found myself in a spiritual and psychological desert of sorts, at odds with everyone and everything around me and uncertain as to what direction, if any, I should take. It was at that precise moment that, like Howard…