13 August 2026

On Sunday 2 August, I copied this quote in my commonplace book because I liked it. I often connect to a quote for a particular, immediate reason, but this time I didn’t. The truth of the words spoke to me. Signs and coincidences are not just funny little weirdsies… They are not accidents. They are […]

9 August 2026

Barry Manilow and I go back a long way. I can’t remember when I first heard Barry’s music. However, I know that I became obsessed about Weekend In New England shortly after he released it on 27 November 1976.

8 May 2026

I'm presenting next month and need to make slides. I have a dilemma: should I create them by manually finding images, as I've done for 30 years, or should I use Generative AI to help me in this process?

29 April 2026

After suffering from comparison-itis for years, I resolved I would STOP THE COMPARISONS and, like Barry Manilow, run my own race! Here are 5 quotes and 3 tactics that reinforce that intention.

15 April 2026

On the wonderful Audiobooks at Sea cruise yesterday, narrator Jess Moran gave a detailed and inspiring presentation demonstrating how she intentionally and thoughtfully develops things to share on social media without making life’s work out of each post. Someone asked how to store and catalog all the assets that you create. Our fabulous host Joel […]

18 March 2026

Ideas love speed…or do they? It was 5 years ago today — 18 March 2021 — that I first heard about the situation that inspired my forthcoming book.

6 February 2026

I document my book progress each day in my journals. I've been digitizing those entries and will re-purpose them into a blog when I launch the book's web site. Transcribing parts of journals led me to finally embarking on my long-held dream of digitizing my journals! I outlined my process in this article.

14 January 2026

After 20+ years of narrating books written by others, I’m thrilled to announce that I am writing my first book!   I’ll share more as I continue with this project.

1 January 2026

I can vividly remember feeling discouraged, angry, and upset about things — especially career objectives — that didn’t happen when or how I hoped they would, or even at all. I know I wasted incredible time and energy during my IRS years of desperately wanting the life I now have and feeling extremely frustrated about […]

6 August 2025

Updated 1/3/26   I’ve been a proud member of the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association (PANA) since its inception. The organization offered its first convention PANAcon last month.   When I was asked earlier this year to speak at the first PANAcon on a panel about self-producing your work, I couldn’t say “yes!” fast enough! If […]