Image by kmevans via Flickr            I discovered this fantastic diet quite by accident. Once more relying on my Garmin while visiting Paul’s Paradise near Albany, I got lost. A twenty minute drive took an hour and the grocery store I searched for had been washed away by Hurricane Irene. I ended up twenty minutes later in Cobleskill. …[ read more ]

All Things Literary (sorry NPR–If the paraphrase works–use it) Want to be a great writer? Follow these tips. Mark Twain is back by popular demand. Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. Ideally a book would have no order to …[ read more ]

Funday-Monday Cover of Mark Twain I’d like to introduce my guest blogger, Mark Twain . As we know over the last week, we’ve been inundated with Hurricane Irene news. Well, Twain is an expert meterologist and here are some of his insights about water. The solution to our water problems is more rain. Whiskey is for drinking; water is …[ read more ]

It’s–Funday-Monday In six words, can you write your memoir?I heard in this Sunday’s Sermon that Ernest Hemingway was asked to prove his writing skills by creating a short story in six words. He wrote: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” The congregation as a whole gasped with the power of the “story.” Other examples: I …[ read more ]

Image by scubadive67 via Flickr    Tuesday night NBC told a human interest story about a police officer Jeremy Henwood who was shot while sitting in his patrol car outside a McDonald’s in San Diego. Henwood survived tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and no one expected him to die while eating lunch. Minutes before he died, a …[ read more ]