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Continue reading →: The Magic of ChristmasWhat really makes Christmas magical? How does it still hold so much power for some of us? When I think about the Christmas Season what stands out to me are the traditions. I feel that these are what make the holiday season so magical and special. I also think in…
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Continue reading →: We All Need a Little Recharge SometimesThe holiday weekend really gave me a re-set that is a noticeable change. The past month was a rough one for a number of reasons. My day job grew incredibly stressful over the majority of November with a lot of working lunches and after hours work. On top of that…
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Continue reading →: Reflections On My First Book EventThis past weekend was a big milestone for me. I attended my first ever book event where I was a guest. Leading up to it I can admit that I was pretty nervous. It was held at a relatively new independent bookstore here in San Antonio called Pages for Ages,…
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Continue reading →: The Anniversary I Never WantedMy Dad died from cancer when I was twenty-four. To say that event shaped me would be an understatement. In October of that year I was getting ready to go into work and he said he was going to the ER like it was just a minor inconvenience. I said…
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Continue reading →: What Happens When Life Gets In The Way?The past three weeks have been dominated by work work, which I affectionately call my day job as a project manager. I have three high profile projects running right now, with two of them under executive scrutiny. To say that I am stressed is putting it mildly. More often than…
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Continue reading →: A Reflection on Three Months of WritingI have been writing for this blog for three months. While I have tried blogging in the past, those attempts didn’t have this longevity. This got me thinking, what is different about this time from the ones before? The obvious answer is of course, me. I’m not the same person…
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Continue reading →: Raising the Dead: Unearthing Unfinished ProjectsSomewhere on an old hard drive are reference pictures from old paintings and a 140 page screenplay that I thought was going to change the world. I think every artist has at least one or two pieces they started with so much enthusiasm but eventually set aside. Whether it was…
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Continue reading →: When the Candles Burn: First Chapter PreviewThe chorus of laughter and games in their favorite Chuck E Cheese encroached on the tense negotiation within the booth, where a supreme pizza waited to be devoured. Corrie Andrews tapped her burgundy nails on the table in repeating succession as she fluctuated from sadness to anger and back again.…
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Continue reading →: The Memory That Still Shapes My StoriesI was an Army brat growing up. My dad got his commission when I was a baby so for the longest time military life was all I knew. I had no concept of roots in the sense of putting any down. I moved three times in the first six years…
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Continue reading →: Breathing Life into Fictional People: How I Do ItWhile our greatest stories resonate in our memories for their epic scale or moral lessons, none of them would have reached the heights they did without great characters. No, really. Without someone for the reader to connect to the events of story would bear little difference to a history textbook,…
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