As of late I feel my blog entries have been akin to motivational posters, but I’ve found that, ironically enough, some of my past blogs, Inspiration and Perspective, have been some of my most popular, well except for that one on Sex. To continue this theme, I’m going to write about determination.  I frequently describe writing as a football game of sorts, a special kind of football game. You as the writer get to be the quarterback.  In our game of football the writer/quarterback is also leading a really tight and seasoned offense.  Isn’t every[..]

It wasn’t there, then it is - as simple as that.  In a single moment inspiration can hit, changing the course of your moment, minute or day.  Sometimes you find it in the oddest of places. When I began working on The Trust I was flying home and started typing at 20,000 feet.  To this day I can’t remember where I had traveled, but I remember as I looked out over a blanket of clouds it was, at that moment, time to start writing.  That was inspiration enough for me, though I had been waiting[..]

1 – From your website bio it’s easy to see how you were drawn to write about the Falls and the Niagara area.  One of the more interesting places in the book is “Ol’Gordy’s.” Is this an actual place and if it is how does it compare to the “Ol’Gordy’s in Bridges?  If not, how did you come up with this idea? dk - While there are a number of shops and businesses in Niagara with pictures of Niagara Falls, and some from the old days, Ol’Gordy’s was a fabrication of life as I recall[..]