Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • A Summer Vacation from Writing—for the most part

    I decided to take some time away from the blades and drills to feed my writing beast a treat.

  • The Food Wars

    Who is the New York Post columnist Kyle Smith really working for?

  • Fixing the Self-Esteem Train Wreck

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The self-esteem generation may be fixing the cultural train wreck caused by the average Baby Boomer parent. But before I talk about how the Self-Esteem Generation—known as the Me, Me, Me people or the Millennials—are going to do this, I want to point out some of the damage the Baby Boomer…

  • Unknown Callers

    The caller ID window offered no identification or phone number. Should we shoot our phone?

  • How Much Do You Do Before You Click “Publish”?

    Before I click “publish”, I follow a step-by-step process and once that process is completed, I click. But the process is longer and has more steps for a book-length manuscript that I’m planning to sell to readers compared to the editing process for a post that’s free to read. For example, Hemingway had a process. He worked on one-page a…

  • Will this generation reach avatar immortality?

    How about a new life with the old you? Starting over at age eighteen again from eighty or older.

  • Good News Twice in One Day

    What does it take to get your book noticed in a crowded marketplace?

  • Opinions versus the Truth – are they one and the same?

    When does an opinion become the truth, and who decides what that truth is?

  • Coffee with Hafiz.

    Originally posted on love in a tiny room: I am in a love affair with Hafiz. His poems tickle my throat and turn the corners of my lips up. His words dance with my fingers as if I wrote them myself. I sit in the streets with the homeless If my alarm sings at 6:45 then I am out of…