MemoirTwo months after my wife died, I stood in the most spectacular wildflower bloom in Joshua Tree's recorded history, 45, newly widowed, and lost. I could have reached for medication or given up in a chair. Instead the desert my…
FamilyI proposed at Wendy's on our third date, and then we married four times in a single week. It is not a story about a couple who kept getting it wrong; it is about finding your person and watching the…
Personal StoryGeoCities gave 38 million people their very first website, then Yahoo bought it for $3.57 billion and erased it. It began in 1994 with David Bohnett reading about the web on a plane and betting his livelihood on it. Here…
Becoming a GhostwriterAuthor Bjorn Larssen self-published his first graphic novel at six: a limited edition of one, handcrafted with crayons, staples, and paper torn from a notebook. The road from there to working author ran through injury, doubt, and nineteen drafts. Here…
Becoming a GhostwriterI have ghostwritten 54+ books for CEOs and leaders, but the story that mattered most came on my grandfather's back porch in 1977. For seventeen years the family called him difficult and gruff, yet he cooked meals that felt like…
AmericaIn 1961 a Cuban family fled Castro with their one-year-old son, traded established careers for minimum-wage jobs in Miami, and that infant grew up to become a cop at nineteen, the youngest Circuit Court judge in Miami-Dade history, a death-penalty…
ADHDAt 64, after 113+ books and a tech career, I learned I am autistic and have ADHD, and probably always was, which rewrote my entire life story. For decades I thought something was wrong with me. The same wiring that…
Personal StoryThe books that held up on rereading, the ones that betrayed me, and what the difference between them says about what a book is doing when it works.
DialogueDialogue that sounds like a police report has no life in it. A forceful bellydancer named Marjhani taught the lesson without ever reading a word.
MemoirThe scenes memoir writers skip because they seem boring are usually where the power lives. A quiet moment in a client interview proved it.
Personal StorySomebody wrote a book that got you through something, and they never knew it happened. That transaction runs in both directions, which is the argument for writing the one you keep not writing.
Personal StoryThe thing you have not said is the most dangerous thing you own, and the cost of keeping it is higher than the cost of writing it down.
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