We all have mentors who have influenced judgments and ideas we have about other people or things (spouse, boss, self, etc.). Since Mother’s Day is fast approaching let’s talk about our mothers, who are our first mentors. I once took a seminar with the author Walter Mosely, and he said that when you are born, […]

“What happens when a couple thousand passionate speakers meet up in the coolest hotel on the busiest street of the most-celebrated city in the world? Well I don’t know, but hold on to your bell bottoms, ’cause we’re planning a shindig in Times Square that’s sure to drop the ball a few months early.” Last […]

This is a short video of Fred Kahl, one of the students in my Finish Your Script class. He is writing a wonderful “vampire” script. As you’ll see from the video, writing is just one of his talents.

My brother Roger and his book, Putting Meat on the American Table, were recently mentioned in a Washington Post article about a Canadian journalist’s meat consumption. This is the same newspaper that did a feature story on “Lights, Camera Literacy!” the Maryland-based middle school program that has adopted my own book. I try to remain […]