The season is here. Time to start the motors. Racing’s always been a part of my life. I got given some racing game when I was five years old. Something from Papyrus. It had a #24 car on the cover and I just never lost interest in it. It got me through some dark times. […]
Blog
Burnout
The other day I penned 10,000 words in my new book, plus another 4,000 across my other sites. Then I went on to Twitter and bragged about it. You can follow my Twitter here. So, humble pie was served to me over the next couple days. 10,000 words Monday. 0 words Tuesday. And…1,113 so far […]
Kotor
The quietest place I’ve ever been. 13k people. More people live in a district in Kiev than that. But there’s a sense of “know”. Everyone at the grocery stores knows me by now. The girls giggle when they have to speak English to me (thankfully, they speak quite well). This is the kind of place […]
Brand
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my online business pursuits for the last year, it’s that brand matters. And I’m fortunate that I picked a good name for my main website, right off the bat. Of course, my pen name has evolved, from… The “original blog” – This blog will get me in trouble Troublemaker […]
Istanbul
Split between Europe and Asia, Turkey’s crowned jewel city–Istanbul–is a hypnotic blend of Asian cheesiness, Middle Eastern religion, and European culture all wrapped into one beautiful and vast city. In all my travels so far, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. What do I mean by the above? Asian cheesiness: Thousands and thousands of […]