The Writer’s Coin

So I recently finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (which was chosen by my readers) and I loved it. So I’m two for two with her after also loving The Namesake. So I was doing some reading about her and found a nice piece on Time about her.
They compare and contrast her with two other […]

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Check out some great posts over at the Money Hacks Carnival, hosted by Save and Conquer. My post, Going to the Game is Expensive, was chosen for the Economy section of the carnival.
I’m also over at the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances hosted by The Locomono Website. My story for that one is about getting […]

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Earlier this week I wrote about a writing formula I discovered that works for me and I think can help other writers, as well as any creative types. Well, today I went out for a run and had an epiphany: there was more to say about the formula.
Reading + “Quiet Time” = Creative Writing Ideas
Today […]

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I just read this piece on ESPN and I couldn’t believe it. Here was a couple that didn’t know how they would pay for their next mortgage payment and still they would not sell their season tickets to the Dodger games.
Huh?
I was shocked when I got to the end of it because it felt like […]

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Writing that title made me feel like I was penning the sequel to The Secret or something. Like I was going to write something akin to “Just follow this simple formula and all your writing block problems will be forever solved!”
Which isn’t what I’m saying but I am saying that it’ll definitely help you the […]

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I’ve written before about how to get your work out of the slush pile and into the literary magazines that are out there, but the current Poets & Writers has a whole bunch of great tips that apply to writers of all stripes and so I figured I would pass on the knowledge. Let me […]

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On Monday I admitted to the world that I’m a really nostalgic person and began a brief (or maybe not so brief since this is part 2) look back at how far I’ve come over the past few years. I left off in October 2006 after having worked out every for a month and then […]

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I was always the kid in school that didn’t like working in groups. I liked doing things my way and I liked getting them done on my own. And even today I still do: part of my always feels like my way is the best way and so why have anyone else’s opinion in there […]

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Well, it’s been about a week since my last post and a few things have happened that have kept me from writing. First of all, I got some kind of flu/plague hybrid that kicked my butt and kept me in bed for four days straight. I’m still not recovered but at least right now I […]

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On Monday M and I watched one of her favorite movies: The Notebook. I had seen it with her before but it was a while ago and I went into it with the attitude that I was watching it because she really likes it.
It’s a fantastic movie—the kind that gets you so emotionally worked up […]

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