Missives from the Sun

  Sand-crusted and mellowed, I’ve sat down to try and write over the past few days and quickly abandoned these attempts. I sense the words have been spat out in the froth of the surf, subconsciously deemed inadequate – even unnecessary – as I’ve sat upon the warmed rocks, content just in absorbing the elements….

Writing About Writing As A Parent, and an IGA Christmas

  I recently shot a video for IGA about Christmas decorating with the kids. If you’d like to look, it’s now available for view at the IGA website. It was lots of fun! I was also asked to contribute to the’Writers’ Other Jobs’ series over at The Writers Bloc, and I chose to write about…

What Are Your Goals in 2014?

I was listening to Chris Guillebeau speak at a blogging conference last year when he said something that struck me quite hard. He was talking about his life before his blogging really hit its straps; the phrase he used was “convergence”. He lacked it, therefore things felt quite orbital, haphazard. However, when his goals and…