MY WRITERS SITE: 2015-03-22

Big

Stop acting so small.

You are the universe

in ecstatic motion.

Rumi

Questions

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -

Voltaire

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” Goethe

My life goal

MY GOAL IS TO CREATE A LIFE THAT I DON'T NEED A VACATION FROM

Get happy

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." — Aristotle

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons." — Stephen Chbosky

"Happiness is a warm puppy." — Charles M. Schulz

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." — W.P. Kinsella

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." — Mark Twain

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will." — L.M. Montgomery

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." — Mahatma Gandhi

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." — Anne Frank

"We're all golden sunflowers inside." — Allen Ginsberg

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." — Groucho Marx

"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." — Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a byproduct." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." — Carl Jung

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." — William Butler Yeats

Louis L’amour

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”

Passion

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent. -

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”

Larry L. King

“The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,

is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didn’t know was in you.”

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism,..............

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the ‘good life’, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.” Hunter S. Thompson

To my friends....

A referral point for my friends (personnel friends, meaning people I know in my personnel life) who want me to “Take a look at my stuff.” For years I’ve said sure, I’ll look at it, meaning edit it. But I have always forewarned them that I take the processes seriously and I won’t pull any punches and not to get angry with me. They always, always, always assure me that they want to a professional edit and that I shouldn’t pull any punches just because we’re friends. Then I edit their work and they get angry at me. So here’s what we’re going to do. If you want me to give my opinion on your writing or edit your work, the charge is $50.00 an hour with a four hour minimum. That should stop most of you from asking me to look at your work and while preserving our friendship.

Why this blog is here.

I am largely self-educated, and this blog is continuation of that education. I have an MFA, but that doesn’t have much to do with an education, not the kind I’m talking about. An advanced degree means I am able to follow instruction.

Never ending self-education means I adore knowledge and enlightenment of both the ordinary and the odd and that’s what this blog is about. It is by me, written for my benefit. You are more than welcomed to drop by as often and for as long as your heart desires.

John William Tuohy

I was born and raised in Connecticut and now live in rural West Virginia with my wife, Mary, and my dog Eli.

I hold an AA and MA in literature and an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. I spent most of my career as a political consultant and hated every living second of it.

I am produced and award-winning playwright. (Cyberdate, The Hannigans of Beverly, etc.)

I am the author of 12 books on traditional organized crime, an autobiography (No Time to Say Goodbye) two books of short stories (Short Stories from a Small Town, Washington Behind the Monuments) a novella (Imago Summer, 1971) and several books on Connecticut history. I proud to be the historian of Ansonia Connecticut. I sit on the board of Mt. St. John's School.

I occasionally and reluctantly work as an editor but only when I need money to travel.

I am an accomplished amateur photographer, a frustrated painter and not a half-bad gardener and I cook. I collect coins, stamps and political memorabilia. I love film so much that I built a large theater in my home. (I also wrote "On the Waterfront: the Making of a Great Amercian film")

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