And Finding Your Writing Sweet Spot Consider what you can learn about writing from an unexpected source — a world-class actor. In a recent review of the new mega-hit movie, Top Gun Maverick, John Nolte writes, “Tom Cruise is a star because he understands stardom in the same way John Wayne and Errol Flynn and Gene…

We were driving over the Mystic River Bridge, when the woman directly behind me reached over the seat and put her hands over my eyes! Author’s note: Unlike other post card stories, this one costed me a fortune in postage and too many post cards. Also, unlike other post card stories, hell… This one is true! — You learn a lot when driving a cab. Sometimes you wish you hadn’t. I drove a Yellow Cab…

How one three-letter word changed his life There’s a great scene in the Rocky II movie where Rocky is facing his own reluctance and lost ambition about the upcoming match against Apollo Creed, especially after Adrian, his wife, is hospitalized. He lacks moral certainty. Morality and the knowledge that you are right, that the course you have…

From Calexico, California to Yuma, Arizona, and El Paso, Eagle Pass, Zepeda, McAllen, and Brownsville, Texas, border chaos reigns. Homeland Insecurity on Border with Mexico It’s chaos on our southern border. Many farmers and ranchers have set up their own security. It took President Joe Biden two years to make it down to the southern border. Problem was, there weren’t any migrants there at the time of Biden’s visit…

You’re alive on a planet of possibility… It only comes once. Suddenly, you’re alive. You are born. You grow up. You function. You learn. You do things. You marry — or not. You have fun. You get sick. You get well. You are alive on a planet called Earth, which fortunately is at a perfect distance from…

He sat with one leg crossed on the bench in the sun. He looked relaxed, non-threatening. He wanted to talk… A memory from years ago on the Boston Common… I’m fifteen years old. Am walking past Park Street and towards Boylston Street. A guy in a brown leather jacket says…

It started just before midnight. The motel phone kept ringing in the next room. I could hear it through the thin walls. I figured someone was next door because the TV was on. The phone stopped ringing… Then it started over again. I raised myself from my sweaty bed sheets…

Some books fundamentally expand your thinking and potentially change your life. Here are ten non-fiction works that do just that. There are, of course, many other books that could qualify. Feel free to offer your suggestions. Let us begin. The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson: What if you…

They hold up blank sheets because writing anything criticizing Xi or government will land them in jail… or worse. Across China, people hold up blank pieces of 8.3 x 11.7-inch A4 size paper. It’s the common letter-sized paper used in most places in the world outside of North America. But in China, holding up a blank sheet of paper has become a symbol of protest against Chairman Xi’s Zero…