Literary Masterminds: The Lives of Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward
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- March 29, 2023
People like me more now that I bake. It’s true. Baking has leavened my relationships at work, with my neighbors, and with my friends and family, including my mother who passed away several years ago. Baking calms my anger, soothes my grief, and makes me a happier, if slightly larger, person. It’s the extra ingredient
READ MORETwo people can experience the same situation and see it in completely different ways. But what creates our perspectives? And how can we empathize with the feelings and experiences of others? It turns out reading books, and discovering the intent of the author versus the consensus of popular opinion, can help us understand the perspectives
READ MOREEditor’s Note: The Autobiography of Satan (Authorized Edition) by William A. Glasser is available here. Do you understand what I am saying here? Throughout your life, you have been sensing the physical matter, the molecular motions, and the photons that have touched your surface. They have all stimulated neural currents within you that were sent
READ MOREI may create the characters in my novels, but they’re not fully under my command. They have an autonomy I find surprising, and more than a little vexing at times. My newest novel, In the Weeds, is a dark comedy about an Air Force pilot in Vietnam who returns to the US a changed man.
READ MOREEditor’s Note: The Autobiography of Satan (Authorized Edition) by William A. Glasser is available here. Stand outside during a pleasant evening and look up into the star‑filled sky. If your body is sound and your mind is free of troubling thoughts, what you see above you is an awesome sight, a universe of endless depth
READ MOREEditor’s Note: The Autobiography of Satan (Authorized Edition) by William A. Glasser is available here. Did you really not notice what I was doing? I have been tugging at two particular threads that run through the fabric of human existence. One thread has a multitude of knots in it that are tied to all those
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