Jack Dunigan The only way to avoid getting hurt by someone is to live in a cave or a coma. Every person on the face of the earth has experienced mistreatment, injustice, unfairness, offense, exploitation, and abuse. Some much more than others but no one has a free pass. Many have said or done things they’ve lived … Read more
Long before Nike captured the phrase “Just do it,” the expression showed up as a featured bit in Mayberry, North Carolina. That’s right, the home of Sheriff Andy Taylor and his intrepid deputy Barney Fife. It happened on Andy’s front porch. Here’s the clip: A good friend of mine once said, “It is amazing how … Read more
Self-publishing has historically carried something of a stigma. There was this underlying opinion that only those authors not good enough to win a contract with a major publisher would eventually self-publish out of vanity. This is, of course, not entirely true. I suspect major publishers might have been behind the idea, mostly to increase their … Read more
Ten Commandments of writing 1. You shall have no other higher calling than writing. 2. You shall not settle for anything less than the task of writing every day; not email, not Facebook, not reading about writing, not anything. 3. You shall not call yourself a writer unless and until you act like one. (See … Read more
I was speaking with one of my employees, a retired Air Force officer, when I mentioned some of the countries we had visited and what we had done there. My visits were seldom for tourism. Most always I was working. The retired officer then made what I considered to be a remarkable and provocative statement.”You … Read more