Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
It's amazing the places that will put things in your way when you're trying to be creative. With my first book available (paperback and e-book), I'm trying to keep the writing momentum going. The holidays are not helping. Places to go, people to see, chores to be handled. Just ties up time when I... Continue Reading →
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - George Bailey was a young man with dreams. Dreams that he set aside so that he could take care of those around him. Finally, one Christmas Eve, he's pushed too far and wishes that he had never been born. What the world looks like without him isn't what he... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
Creativity comes in the strangest places some days. This past week, it came in the realm of finding Christmas presents for the Lady in My Life. (If that reference is new to you, I simply mean my wife. I'll share the story that goes with that phrase early next year, I promise) My Lady has... Continue Reading →
The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army by Robert O'Harrow Jr. (2016) - Lost amid the names of generals of the Civil War is the man who may have had as much to do with the victory of the Union as any commander in the field, Montgomery Meigs. It... Continue Reading →
The Way (2010) - A father travels to Europe to claim the body of his only son, who died on the first day of a pilgrimage through northwestern Spain. On impulse, the father decides to complete the journey for his son. In the end, it becomes a pilgrimage for them both. Directed by Emilio Estevez... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
One of the easiest ways for me to drift away from the creative side of my life is to get hung up on "getting it right". I'm not sure where this comes from, I imagine that it has many authors over the course of my life. I know perfectly well that learning a new... Continue Reading →
Every year I post about some of my favorite Christmas media. Since I refuse to discuss Christmas till after Thanksgiving, it is now finally time to post for this year. It's Christmas. Make of it what you will. Maybe it’s a high holy day for you. Maybe it’s really about Santa and the swag under... Continue Reading →
