Ever get the feeling… Well, darn, now I can’t remember what I was going to say. Trust me. It was witty. This is a problem when you walk away from writing for a few years. Ah, I remembered. Medium’s algorithm… all of a sudden, Medium thinks I want more stories…

ass·hole /ˈasˌhōl/ noun VULGAR SLANG•NORTH AMERICAN — 1. a person’s anus. 2. a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person. You can thank my wife for this one, well, actually, one of her good friends and mentors. She had a thirty-year career in Hollywood and a few great mentors. Like the military, the mathematical formula for determining mental and physical damage to your body and mind while working in film…

causing anxiety about actual or potential problems; alarming. — Worrying will not change the outcome. Worrying is a lot like remorse. Think about this: People ONLY show remorse when they get caught. No one has remorse and turns themselves in..except in silly films and TV shows — total fiction. Up to the point of getting caught, they continue to…

I started writing this in 2019. Well, hello, 2022 — I mean November 2022. It seems like a decade or more has passed since March 2019. We have been through unprecedented things. I didn’t write all through the last few years. I stopped when the pandemic started. I worked a…

Thoughts of Ruins, Monuments, and Fragments from a young soldier who was there… The Berlin Wall has become an unintentional monument through its construction, destruction, and the memorialization of the events surrounding its history via photography and fragmentation. Monuments to commemorate many events have been erected throughout time; most often…

How do you move a pile of rocks? One rock at a time. This is some of my hard working (20 plus years in Hollywood) wife’s wisdom that she loves to impart…on me. I always look for the easy way to do things and most often I end up just…

“Liberty is not the freedom to do wrong, it is the freedom to do right.” — unknown