I am on my way, driving across town in pre-rush hour traffic, to conduct an interview, my first interview, with a well-respected, award-winning actress. I fidget uncomfortably in m[...]

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A couple of my friends were over here watching a football game a couple days ago. While the game was on I typed a press release for my company’s website, real creative stuff. After[...]

Most days, my lunch is about the same.  I eat a sandwich, a few chips, and a piece of fruit.  The only real choice in a self-imposed dietary prison is which condiment to pluck from[...]

Adam is the only one in the studio when I arrive.  He’s sitting at a white desk covered in stuff from the last few days: laptops, paperwork, stacks of model cards.  Two big windows[...]

During a recent rain-slicked Sunday quest for the die-cast version of the Porsche known as Sally Carrera, I found myself piloting my automobile through previously unseen backroads [...]

My grandmother died recently.  Although she was 89 years old, her death was a surprise, as deaths tend to be. As I made my way to and from Wichita, Kansas for the funeral, I was in[...]

I am in the middle of a bunch of books.  I start them, fall in love, and then work interjects and I have to cultivate a basic knowledge of emerging media or of the purchasing patte[...]

I was in a lake house somewhere in Wisconsin, waterskiing and eating gourmet hot dogs, when my mom telephoned me, opening with, “Guess what?”  Oh, no.  I hated these theoretical in[...]

When my wife and I bought our house last year and we had a few extra basement rooms to anoint, I dedicated one to the tutelage of our 3-year-old son in the study of music. In it I [...]