Even if you’re a vegetarian, there’s only one way to eat an Elephant.  No matter what your project is, or the deadline that’s hanging over your head, you’ve got to chip away at it.  Michelangelo didn’t hit a stone with a chisel and call it good as the rubble fell away to reveal a masterpiece.  […]

I don’t know where I’m headed, and the landscape will no doubt look different than I expect it to by the time I get there, but damnit… I’m going to get there as fast as I can.  The phrase means to move recklessly fast, usually by horse.  It doesn’t matter what you do in life,

When you’re trying to keep your nose above water, it doesn’t matter if it is raining.  The perk of that is that you never have to pack an umbrella.  Lately, I’ve been contemplating why there are so many stories of machines taking over the world.  There are movies about it.  Countless books.  Everyone seems to know the story,

“Do you want another idea for what you should do next?”  No.  I used to think that some careers were more important than others.  I used to.  I don’t now.  The difference is paper.    Some things just look better on paper.  The same way people do.  Timing is everything.  You’ve heard the phrase, “To the world

There’s got to be a reason to finish it.  Ralf Waldo Emerson famously said that life isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey.  That’s fine.  That’s great.  But it would be nice to get a say in where it’s all going… wouldn’t it?  I don’t think it’s possible to be creatively perfect.  Perfection is the

Or, at the very least it makes me sick.  Maybe it is just me, but I doubt it.  Until something is done, it gnaws at me.  It turns my stomach.  The words almost demand to be spewed across the page.  I’m not sure that there is a bad way to be creative, unless you are an industrious serial

I guess writing teams don’t have celebrity couple names. I don’t know the rules. That’s a bummer, because Tyke is a cool name, the problem being that neither Tyler or I could decide which one of us embodied the definition more. Technically I think I won. I mean, how many pleasant people do you actually