MY WRITERS SITE

MY WRITERS SITE: Letting go : I grew up in foster care. It sucked.  As a young man I was drenched in near hopeless poverty. I suffered.  But...

Some days everything I do is a mistake and then, at the end of the day, I remember that mistakes are proof that I’m trying . ...

I grew up in foster care. It sucked.  As a young man I was drenched in near hopeless poverty. I suffered.  But I eventually let it, the se...

Several times a day I stop and concentrate on the here and now especially when I find myself worrying or wondering about the future or lam...

I work on having the will to allow those that I love be who and what they are and not try to twist and turn them into something that co...

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate  Ray Bradbury wrote “Libr...

I have been defeated a couple of hundred times in this life so far, and I suppose I will be defeated a couple of hundred times more bef...

Frederick Douglas said “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” and if we keep cutting funds to social services ...

        Be a blessing to someone today -                                                  Proverbs 11:25

“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you...

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Émile Zola

“Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.”   Ch...

“Insouciance”  A French loanword, insouciance describes a tranquil mind at its most peaceful state. One is free from concern, worry, or an...

 I don’t compare where I am with where everyone else in the world is because it’s pointless. It does nothing to improve my life or advance...

Here are two things I figured out.  The meaning of life is to give life a meaning and if we believe that life is worth living that belief ...

“Be crazy. Be stupid. Be weird. Be whatever - because life is too short to be anything but happy.” Unknown

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the sou...

“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.” —               ...

Patience is also a form of action.  Auguste Rodin, sculptor 

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Som...