Quotable

“I wrote it in ten fucking minutes and it is a completely magical message song. And after I wrote it, the gates just opened, and the songs kept coming. It was like an immaculate conception.” –Lady Gaga to Jonathan Van Meter about her new song...

Poetry in motion

From The Writer’s Almanac courtesy of Garrison Keillor today, a poem by Kilian McDonnell: Perfection, Perfection (“I will walk the way of perfection.” Psalm 101:2) I have had it with perfection. I have packed my bags, I am out of here. Gone. As...

No Place Like Home

I so enjoy people who are “in” their art and therefore it’s a natural that I have an affinity for what designer Stephen Saint-Onge does and espouses. His new book, No Place Like Home, is both eye-catching and engaging to read, especially if...

Our tedious penchant for partisanship

I am so over trying to get my news in a reasonably objective way on a daily basis, always having to weigh who’s saying it or publishing it. Lordy, don’t we all have better things to do? Now, of course, this is coming from someone whose opinions appear on a...

Special ‘Touch’

I always love hearing stories of hardworking authors getting published after paying their dues, but I particularly love hearing them when the author is a former life coaching client of mine. This goal was at the top of writer Amanda Mininger’s list when we...