Joe Noonan lives in the ocean. Well, he fishes, swims and takes people out to swim with wild dolphins every chance he gets. His entire life is consumed with his number one passion - dolphins. I told him he ought to share his ga-zillion photos with the world on a regular basis, and through more than just his website. So we came up with “Love from the Sea,” a weekly photo of the dolphins, fish and sea creatures he swims with and his life in the ocean. It’s free. …

Okay, it’s warm weather, spring is in the air - yes, here in Virginia it is anyway - and in Atlanta too I hear. And today I received my copy of Caravan Cookbook: An Inspirational Guide to Family Cooking. It ROCKS. If you like cooking and food and camping - you will love this book. The link above is an affiliate link, cause I don’t get paid to review books - I just love checking out new stuff and the affiliate link helps me with my habit. I’d say that …

I just finished an ebook for folks who keep asking me how they can get started writing and making money online. I get requests like that about 3-4 times a week. I also hear from a lot of journalists, people who read this blog, people who find out I’m ghostwriting and so on. Everyone wants to know how they can get started, what sites to go to, how to make money, pitfalls etc. I spend a lot of time writing emails and on the phone explaining it to people and …

Many of you may have read my essay on Salon.com. I know so because a couple of you wrote me and expressed an interest in what the van looked like. Well, here she is. In her finer days - like back in 2009, she cleaned up well. But in two years she’s gone downhill. The defroster doesn’t work. The brakes need replacing and there’s about $800 worth of work that needs to be done to get her on the road again. It’s still a comfortable place for me - more …

Technology changes. People don’t. People have remained pretty much the same since early recorded history. The technology and the speed and way at which things get done may change - but human nature is human nature. This photo of newspaper headlines was posted in the street-corner window of a newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The entire series of photos may be viewed here.
In case you don’t remember, when we were teenagers and …