I look at travel in the form of two avenues. The first , for business and the second, for pleasure. Combining travels business purpose with the personal purpose of pleasure allows me to encourage each of you to analyze… “what’s in your suitcase?”. Yes, it is a play on the movie and Ryan Bingham’s [...]
Writing Archive
#156 “No, no, no. It’s not the cheating. It’s the hunger - the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness.” Sarah Pierce - Little Children 2006
What is the difference between success at home and success on the job? What seems to be the dividing factor of attention and acknowledgment? In the film Little Children, Sarah is a mother postponing her research for her doctorate in English, and Brad is a father reluctantly studying for the bar exam. Sarah, played [...]
#150 “In punishment for lack of an interesting pirate name, Peter shall walk the plank.” J.M. Barrie - Finding Neverland 2004
When imagination and inspiration take a slight detour in a writer’s life, we find our greatest philosophy of words through thought in those in which we are surrounded by. When life puts the creative halt on a writer, the words written after the inspiration become life’s great imaginative experience; it becomes Peter Pan. It becomes the seek [...]
#144 ” The waterfall is most important. Mixes the chocolate. Churns it up, makes it light and frothy. By the way, no other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall, my dear children, and you can take that to the bank.” Willy Wonka - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005
Johnny Depp portrayed the infamous Willy Wonka in this remake version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I recall watching the original as a kid, thinking about the world full of candy and temptation into imagination and endless supply of sweetness. As I age, I see the [...]
#141 “The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do…So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?” Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003
Yo ho.. Yo ho… a pirates life for me! We all thought about that catchy tune and reflected on our memories of such a tale when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl hit theaters in 2003. The legend of pirates on the high seas, diamonds in a treasure chest and beautiful mermaids hidden within the coves, [...]
#100 “Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!” Dorothy - The Wizard of Oz 1939
“Follow the yellow brick road.. follow, follow, follow, follow.. follow the yellow brick road…”
In an imaginative state of mind we find the courage, the brain, and the heart of 3 souls and their humble dreamer; Ms. Dorothy along their path to the Wizard in Emerald City. As a tornado turns the world of a Kansas [...]
