I just finished reading S. D. Smith’s The Green Ember. Smith’s hashtag for the series is rightfully #rabbitswithswords. It is a middle grade fantasy novel about two rabbits who are thrown into an epic medieval tale of a broken kingdom that has hope in the coming of a new king. I read the book because…
The Learning Log
Why Canadian Rock Band Sloan Didn’t Quit
In 1999 my closest high school friends and I were obsessed with a Canadian band named Sloan. No one we knew had really heard of them, but we loved everything they did. As a group we went to many Sloan concerts together in high school and then during college. But in 1999 Sloan was wondering…
Imagining Too Little
Hyperbole isn’t the worst crime. men suffer more from imagining too little than too much. P. T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman Visionary leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs show us that the impossible is possible. By default, we imagine too little until someone shows us how to see the world differently. Have confidence. Confidence is the…
Don’t waste a year writing a bad novel. Do this instead. (Writing advice from Ray Bradbury)
You can spend an entire year on a novel that turns out to be really bad. Ray Bradbury offered some alternative advice for the beginner or intermediate writer: Write 52 short stories instead of one novel. Write one short story a week for a year. “I defy you,” he said, “to write 52 bad ones….
Why We Don’t Keep a Budget
I am so grateful that we were given Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover as a newly married couple ten years ago. It gave us a road map to follow to find the financial security we have today. I became a big Dave Ramsey fan back then and listened to the podcast version of his radio…
