Like most writers, I spend a lot of time alone applying my craft to the stories calling to me. And, like many people, I can lose myself in my aloneness. This is a good thing when I’m creating. But there are times when it’s not a good thing. I tend to be a loner, private…
Life would be incredibly boring and honestly, quite sad, if we did not feel memories and milestones with some kind of warmth. Everything we would smell, taste, touch, see, and hear would be so bland, and the world a vastness of nothingness. When we awake the creativity within ourselves, we are given the chance to…
Finding creativity in the mass of depression is like trying to find the wind for your sails in the middle of the ocean, where there has been no trace of wind in what seems like a lifetime ago. You are trying to muster up the creativity that came so naturally to you, but now it…
At the mouth of the Catatumbo River, where it meets Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, a weather phenomenon occurs that is so powerful, frightening and mysterious, it draws thrill-seeking scientists and photographers from all over the world, birthing myths and lore about its origin and cause. Every night, in the exact place, one hour after dawn, storm…