I once lived in Paris--the photo at right is the Eiffel Tower at night, all lit up for summer tourists. I learned the streets and shops and ...

When you go about your day, you use both sides of your brain. Perhaps your analytical, left brain balances your checkbook and navigates the ...

E.L. Doctorow said, "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of bei...

I’ve written and published thirteen books in thirty years--novels, how-to books, memoirs, self-help books, and technical books. Each was a j...

I'm a painter, too (one of my still life paintings is to your left), and I remember my favorite painting teacher once saying this: What...

You may already know this--but writing a book takes a lot of stamina. Because unlike writing a story, poem, essay, or article, completing a...