LOOK BACK YET GO FORWARD.

There’s a time when looking at the past when we might

wonder if we’re on the right path.

We make choices over what shape our lives in so many

different ways.

Some good, some not so good.

Some we get over, some we don’t.

Author’s comment: Keeping up relationships is

a good start. Build on them. It’s mostly friends

who keep us going. Hold on to them. What could

be more important?

Pick up the phone. Now.

Call someone you’ve not been connected with for a while.

Say, (for instance) “Hi, George, what’s up?”

It might make your day. And theirs.

WHEN READING TOO MUCH

I’m not talking the amount of research that goes into a book

or screenplay. It’s about trying to keep up with the daily

newspaper that arrives sometime during the night.

Then comes the weekend editions of both the Toronto Star and the Globe.

The answer is simple, I tell myself: Simply skip through

each daily newspaper during lunch.

The advice is a admirable.

Then why can’t I do it? Because the characters in the

manuscript shout at me “come on, get on with the plot before we

fade away.”

Okay, I mumble, I’m coming.