[November 29, 2011]

NEW

“Success,” a chapter from Nice Start, headlines Grand Strand Boomers today. You can also read it here or download: “Success.”

 

[ September 26, 2011 ]

NEW

Visit this page for more sample chapters from Nice Start. Featured now, read it here or download: “School Today.”

 

[ August 29, 2011 ]

NOTABLE

Scientific American reports on The Pitfalls of Positive Thinking (September 2011), based on research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. According to Heather Barry Kappes of New York University, one of the study’s co-authors, people may be better off imagining how to surmount obstacles instead of ignoring them.

Or let’s put it this way, from the very first paragraph of Nice Start: “You find it hard to imagine Cap­tain Picard solving a galactic emergency on the starship Enter­prise by com­manding his crew, ‘Wish it so!’”

 

[ August 25, 2011 ]

NEW

“Thankfulness,” an excerpt from Nice Start, appears as an article in GlamourUnderground.com. It has a nice little introduction and ending. “Occasionally [other people] will notice me. When they do, I hope that I’ve lived my life in such a way that they are thankful for me.”