My Books
My books reach all sorts of readers. Fiction works feature everyday characters with noticeable strengths and flaws, ripe with potential for personal growth. Non-fiction volumes offer information, inspiration and the challenge of embracing fresh angles on familiar topics.
The Wine Steward's Lover: After 29-year-old Kate Hart`s career implodes, the highly-structured, lifelong Nashvillian stumbles into grad school to catch her breath, gain clarity and reignite her childhood poetry-writing passion. What Kate embraces across a single semester is far more life-changing than a few verses of iambic pentameter: a heroine`s journey into ambiguity (guided by the writings of Joseph Campbell), new friends straddling the borders of tragedy, the potential reconciliation of her fractured family...and the disappearance of a handsome, intriguing young man--just minutes after Kate falls in love with him.
Assess, Collaborate, Execute: ACE Your Way Through Life: A simple road map for holistic change, featuring an intentional, three-phased approach of quickly assessing the situation at hand; collaborating with others; and executing with discipline, to get better results and satisfaction across four core spheres of life. ACE is also my
executive coaching framework.
Narcissus Blinked: Married, disillusioned advertising wordsmith Jacob is on the verge of an affair with his married neighbor, Julia. At the height of their verbal seduction she suddenly attempts suicide, plunging Jacob into a full-day's journey from self-absorption to self-awareness as the future of two families hangs in the balance.
Chased by the Wind: In this most unusual of spiritual memoirs, I dissect the 15 books and hundreds of songs I wrote as a youth in order to reveal a nascent search for God amid surprising footprints of grace.
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My blogging categories (found along the left-hand side of each page of this Web site) are divided into four parts: Physical Engagement, Intellectual Engagement, Emotional Engagement and Spiritual Engagement. These four spheres are integral to my life vision, and their sub-spheres correspond to the topics I tackle in my constantly-updated book Assess, Collaborate, Execute: ACE Your Way Through Life:
Physical Engagement
· Health and Fitness
· Play and Rest
· Sex
Intellectual Engagement
· Learning and Neuroscience
· Critical Thinking
· Communication
· Leading, Managing and Coaching Others
· Strategic Thinking and Execution
Emotional Engagement
· Emotional Intelligence
· Gratitude and Patience
· Thriving Through Change
· The Arts
· Relationships
Spiritual Engagement
· Mindfulness and Meditation
· Calling and Vocation
· Appreciating Myths and Religions
Nothing worthwhile takes place in a vacuum. Therefore an integral approach to all of these blog categories is vital; in order to facilitate alignment and synergy that truly fosters a sense of success, optimism and peace.
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A Final Word
Content is my first and enduring vocational love! I've spent more than two decades writing freelance articles, Web content, manuscripts, marketing materials, speeches, presentations, scripts, songs and coaching approaches for a variety of clients across several industries. Clients have included the University of Florida; the University of Kentucky; Asbury Theological Seminary; Rollins College; Linkage, Inc.; Thomas Nelson; Zondervan; Baker Books; Guideposts Books; The Mission Society; and Modern Healthcare, Talent Management, Interpreter, Contemporary Christian Music, Charisma, New Man and Enrichment Journal magazines.