I have come to a realization this morning – and it’s harder to admit than I expected. But I think it needs to be said, as honestly and forthrightly as possible. I’m actually really good at being Awesome. I have, … Continue reading →
Signal, Signal, Signal…a lot of recent personal progression and soul-searching just culminated in a thunderclap of Signal. Just now, in the last fifteen minutes. A few months ago, during the Superstars Writing Seminars in Colorado Springs, a dear friend of … Continue reading →
The book I’m currently finishing, the first in the Fool’s Hollow series, with a story that spans my entire career, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. There are lines in it I wrote when I was sixteen; there are … Continue reading →
A couple of months ago, I wrote some very difficult essays, including one, “A Force Of Nature”, that one of my closest friends said was the most important thing I’d ever written. It dealt with some very hard and painful … Continue reading →
…for me, was a small, slender, two-color, beaten-up hardcover copy of James Allen’s AS A MAN THINKETH, which had belonged to my mother in college. In a book full of quotable, livable passages, one stood out to me: “Circumstance does … Continue reading →
….and your Signal never changes. Only your choices about how to respond to it do. Signal comes from your heart, your inner core, the center of who you really are. Your choices come largely from your head, and are often … Continue reading →
Someone once said that all pain is fear, and all fear is fear of loss, and I think that’s largely true. There are great many things I have wanted to do in my life which I postponed doing because of … Continue reading →
When people visit my private working office at the Coppervale Studio, they see that it’s chock-full of books, comics, and art. Closer observers who know me better realize that most of the stuff in here is from the mid 1980’s … Continue reading →
Via my friend Brian Holguin: “Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.” — Sherman Alexie. This is how Magic works, and how everything Extraordinary comes into being. A … Continue reading →
Everyone has within them the desire to do remarkable, extraordinary things. Few choose to do them; and those who don’t all have reasons that doing those great things were impossible. But impossible is only a word — and if you … Continue reading →