Professional Vacationist If I could choose my dream job, I would choose to be a professional vacationist. I thoroughly enjoy traveling—going new places, experiencing new things, and meeting new people. While I don’t mind flying, driving from point A to point B offers a greater chance of discovery. In fact, several of the more interesting sights I have seen were due to wrong turns. One of the things I enjoy about reading is the numerous places books can take me. I…
When In The Course Of Human Events “When in the Course of human events…” These seven words are the beginning of one of the greatest American documents ever written, The Declaration of Independence. In and of themselves, they hold an eloquence and a power that changed the world. They helped start a war and birth a nation. But not everything in life (or writing) needs to be an event. If our lives were filled with one event after another, exhaustion…
“The best time to plan a book is while you are doing the dishes.”–Agatha Christie