One of the best pieces of writing advice I ever paid a ton of money for was to educate your readers about how to read your story.

I’m not going to do a deep dive into that secret here because this isn’t a post about writing. …

An election isn’t a popularity contest.

Well, it is. But only until it’s certified.

But then you have to live with the results, whether you like the winner or not.

Tell that to the voters in San Francisco and California at large.

And North Dakota. Idaho. States with more recall…

How many times do I have to say it. We elect politicians, not saints.

If you’re a Californian on the fence about how to vote in the upcoming gubernatorial election, I have one question for you. How would you like to have Stephen Miller in the White House? …

It would never have occurred to me to speak to the two young men on the beach.

How young were they? To a woman in her eighties, anyone under fifty is a young whippersnapper.

I don’t say that to be ageist, but thirty or forty years is a long time…

This platform is full of writing tips. I’ve written a few myself.

Yet, some of the most important lessons I’ve learned about writing have been those they don’t teach you in writing classes.

Like so many important endeavors in life, the actual writing part of writing it is often easier…

Sometimes they act like the rest of us.

First rule of picking heroes. They aren’t always who you think they are. And sometimes celebrities are heroes but not because they’re stars.

Laura Hillenbrand

If you are one of the centillion readers of Laura Hillenbrand’s bestseller about the racehorse Seabiscuit, or one of…

I have a spiel for new writers. I’ve been saying it for so long, now I even bore myself. But if you want to be a writer, and eventually write well, you have to sit down and write. Every. Damn. Day.

I can hear the naysayers naysaying and throwing the…

First rule of picking heroes: don’t go for the first muscle-bound, tough-looking guy just because you think bravado will help you get through life.

Help you open the stuck lid on the pickle jar, for sure. …