Let me tell you what having nothing means to me. To artists, ideas are currency. Inspiration, quite literally, equals dollars. Honest art is bankable. Ideas are fuel for an artist’s idle mind. Artists run on ideas the same way nine-to-fivers run on food and watered-down coffee. Without ideas, artists don’t get out of bed. Without ideas, they meander about like...

  This is what I have learned: every man loses. He loses his baby teeth. He loses his toys. He may lose his first love, he will probably lose his virginity. He will surely lose his temper more times than one, his job, his wallet and his keys. He will lose control. He will lose sleep. He will make bets and will lose some of them. After a while, he may lose his...

  The glassy blue water blended itself into the powdery sky creating, as it were, no visible horizon. Instead, there was but one uniform sheet held up in front of us as we motored through choppy, tropical waters in a small fiberglass skiff. We were off the coast of the Azuero peninsula, in the Gulf of Panamá, trolling for yellow-fin tuna at break-neck speeds....

As a writer I find myself eternally discussing my writing, and not so much the writing itself but the process of creating it. And this process, no doubt unlike any other known to civilized man, is one of myth, superstition, delusion and creativity, all of which I willingly accede to on a daily basis. There is just something about writing, and writers, that people...

At first it sounds like an orchestra warming up at the theater, everyone in their own element, worrying about their own instruments and itinerary, no real sense of uniformity — they think no one is listening and so make the most natural sounds of all. Where darkness reigned just moments ago, small cracks of light burst forth with such dramatic weight that one...

About four months ago, I was lucky enough to have BRAVO Television agree to fund the motion picture adaptation of the very first short story I ever wrote called “The Day The Old Man Knocked“. Below is the trailer for the film produced by The N.E. and written, directed and edited by yours truly. The Day The Old Man Knocked – Trailer from jeff...