I have been thinking about this post for days, weeks, even months. I’ve longed to be able to write it, but made myself wait. There were times I never thought this day would arrive. Now that it’s here, my thoughts are a (barely) coherent mess and the words are tumbling out on the page. Well alrighty […]
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Back in the Saddle Again
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Blogging, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Writing, tagged Aerosmith, author, Back in the Saddle Again, blogging, book, books, business cards, cover design, cover mock-ups, crying, done, editing, emotional, emotional resilience, FIGT 2013, final, ISBN, Jane Dean, Jo Parfitt, layout, Lemonberry.com, Lisa Hall, nonfiction, printing, publishing process, recalcitrant, regular blogging schedule, Stephen Tyler, Summertime Publishing, testimonials, writing, writing routine on March 27, 2013 | 18 Comments »
Creative Intersection of Culture + Travel + Writing
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Blogging, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-Open Space, Aegean Sea, author, blogging, books, creativity, culture, epic voyage, expat, Facebook, Heathen Pilgrim, HeathenPilgrim.com, Iran, journey, Kickstarter.com, Kusadasi, Matt Krause, Soapbox, travel, trek, turkey, Twitter, video, writer, writing, writing projects on September 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Today is September 1st and I’m sooo excited! Not because it’s the first day of September, although I must say that autumn is my favorite season and I’m very partial to this month. Just a few moments ago, Matt Krause – writer, traveler, former expat and Heathen Pilgrim – took his first steps on his long […]
Save a Mind, Create a Map
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Work, Writing, tagged blogging, books, brainstorm, brainstorming, Cloud storage, collaborative work, creativity, fiction, ideas, mind-map, mind-mapping, MindMeister, Non-fiction, note-taking, project planning, short stories, thoughts, writing, writing projects on August 25, 2012 | 10 Comments »
The other day while working on my book, it dawned on me that I ought to write a post on mind-mapping. Have you ever done mind-mapping? In simple terms, it’s the creation of a diagram to visually display information. You start in the middle of a page with whatever you wish to map: a topic, issue, problem, question, […]
Expat Author Matt Krause, Publishing Pilgrim
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Exercise & Sports, Expat Authors & Others, Riveting Expat Reads, Travel, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-Open Space: Falling in Love in a Muslim Land, author, blogging, book, books, editing, Heathen Pilgrim, journey, Matt Krause, pilgrimage, self-publishing, Soapbox, turkey, walk across Turkey, walking, writing, writing books on May 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It’s been awhile since we last met up with Matt Krause, author of the amazingly beautiful A Tight Wide-Open Space: Falling in Love in a Muslim Land (Delridge Press: 2011), a book I wrote about in A Love Song for Turkey and Author Matt Krause on Writing. As long promised, I wanted to share with you Matt’s insightful thoughts […]
A Father’s Day
Posted in Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Family & Friends, Light Bulb Moments, tagged books, college, Father's Day, graduation, reading on June 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
One of the most wonderful things I am able to share with my father is the joy of reading. That sounds like such a simple thing, and it is. Yet it is also profoundly satisfying. Almost conspiratorial, as if we are the only ones in the world who experience the thrill of becoming swept up […]
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