As the more than 12,000 youth and 18,000 adults walk into the Anaheim Convention Center for the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress each year, they must pass a man shouting in protest of the Catholic Church. He scolds those who pass by with insults so shocking that I often ask myself how it is even…
Archives for March 2018
There is Always a Faster Way
Struggle. Struggle. Struggle. Ready to give up. Then . . . discover a faster way. Accomplish the task with much less effort. I was in a hurry yesterday. I needed to get to Chicago to catch a flight to Los Angeles. I wanted to replace the car seat in our van with a bigger seat…
The “Link Roundup” Email Newsletter
There is a lot of pressure for authors to be prolific creators for the purpose of marketing. They feel the need to blog all the time or churn out new content in order to earn attention. A much more efficient approach, however, is to be a content curator and not just a creator. This way…
Compartmentalize the Creative Process
I seem to fall into a trap as a writer again and again. I sit down and try to cram multiple modes of creativity into one sitting. I sit and stare at a blank page trying to come up with ideas for what to write. Then, I jot down a quick outline or skip that…
After Nine Years of Blogging, Here is the One Thing That Works Best
Today is my ninth blogging anniversary. On March 12, 2009 I published my first blog post using Blogger.com. You can find an archive of that post here. In it I listed a collection of topics I planned to “blog” about. I threw out almost all of those ideas once I found out what really worked….
