Failure isn’t your destination.

I try to avoid playing Monopoly. Not just Monopoly, but any board game that includes the kind of setbacks like “Go to Jail” that may send you back to the first step of the contest. You know, so many of us spend our lives under the oppression of a board-game suite of rules. We allow […]

The Vaccination for these Uncertain Times

We’re surely in the middle of some tough days. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I watched a particular news channel show footage of cargo transports in New York containing dead bodies.  I teach a university Mass Media course on occasion and I’ve learned how fear and anxiety can drive clicks and ratings.  But still, the […]

How to Influence Your Reader

The majority of my work could be classified (in some form or another) as “persuasive non-fiction.” Most of my clients are leaders with messages that make a positive spiritual, relational, financial or professional impact on the lives of their readers. I spent the first ten years of my professional life in public relations and marketing. I […]