Setting Goals and Resistance, Part 2

The Problem (For Some of Us) About Setting Goals I am working on songwriting even as I post this. So far, so good, but man is it hard to get…

Time, Resistance and Priorities–From How to Be an Adult

This chapter starts with what I consider some important skills to develop when moving from the carefree, fake-cheese eating world of adolescence to the kale omelet world of Adulthood. These…

How I Got a New Cover for How to Be an Adult

I had full confidence in my taste, until about ten days ago when I met with my brilliant little group of fellow creative entrepreneurs, and by unanimous vote, they told…

Why is GenY Unhappy? “Special” Is Not the Problem. In Fact, It Might Be The Solution

I just finished re-reading WaitButWhy’s latest post called “Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy.” In it the author posits that young people today (born between the late 70s and the…

How to Be an Adult Introduction, Part Two: What We Learned About Life in 20 Years on the Road

What We Learned About Life in 20 Years on the RoadKatryna first got the idea to write a book called How to Be an Adult after graduating college. She felt…

How to Be an Adult Introduction, part one

Introduction On the occasion of my college graduation, I received my diploma and immediately began to examine it. It was written, unhelpfully, in Latin, a language I studied for one…

How to Be an Adult is Here! Preface Excerpt

I can’t believe how long it’s taken me to do what seemed a small task: to turn my 2008 paperback book How to Be an Adult into an ebook. Answer:…

Light in the Darkness

Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction,…

How to Write a Novel

Disclaimer: This post is really just my scribbling about process. So skip this if you are looking for deep spiritual insights or cute stories about my kids and read this…