Charles Sheehan-Miles's Blog, page 26
May 30, 2012
7 Steps to Being a Fantastic Leader
Over the next few months I’ll be writing a series of posts about one of my favorite subjects: making the world a better place. I’m currently working with my editor on final edits of Saving the World on $30 a Day: An Activist’s Guide to Starting, Organizing and Running a Non-Profit Organization, which will be [...]
May 29, 2012
Episode 3 teaser: Bob Mays and Joe Blankenship
Getting very close to finished with Episode 3. I wanted to post a short teaser, a phone conversation between Bob Mays, the mayor of Whitesville, and his brother in law Joe Blankenship. Feedback is welcome! Please comment. ================ The phone interrupted Bob Mays’s concentration. He sighed, and set the impossible town budget to the side [...]
May 22, 2012
Crying out for life: bullying and teen suicide
The other night, I took my son to an information session at the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell, Georgia. We took Georgia 400 up to Holcomb Bridge Road, where we passed the apartments where I’d lived with my parents from 1980 to 1982 or so. As we turned on to Holcomb Bridge, I looked up [...]
May 17, 2012
When Will Insurgent Episode 3 be released?
Okay, so according to my site stats, four separate people googled this question yesterday. So here’s the answer: I’m ninety percent through episode 3, doing a few final scenes right now. I expect to have it complete by the end of may, and in the hands of my editor and beta readers shortly after. So [...]
May 16, 2012
Ten Life Lessons I learned from my Awesome Kids
My last post, about racism and confronting it within ourselves, generated a lot of argument here on the blog as well as amongst my Facebook friends. This one is not so heavy. I want to write about some of the awesome and amazing things I’ve learned from my two little monsters. So here goes: Ten [...]
May 15, 2012
Warning: You may be more racist than you think. Erasing the lines that divide us.
Race in America. Black and white. Christians and Muslims. Gays and straights. Rich and poor. We live in a society where we draw dividing lines based on all manner of arbitrary classifications. For most average middle class whites, we probably don’t even think about it at all, until suddenly something hits us in the face. [...]
Erasing the lines that divide us
Race in America. Black and white. Christians and Muslims. Gays and straights. Rich and poor. We live in a society where we draw dividing lines based on all manner of arbitrary classifications. For most average middle class whites, we probably don’t even think about it at all, until suddenly something hits us in the face. [...]
May 11, 2012
Book Review: Grounding Quinn by Stephanie Campbell
I mentioned in a blog post a couple weeks ago (about being a teenager in love) that I’ve been reading quite a bit of young adult fiction recently. I started initially because I was having a great deal of trouble getting into the heads of two of the characters in Insurgent. In the end, however, [...]
May 10, 2012
Brief break
Taking a couple days off from blogging! I’ll be back. In the meantime, here’s one of my great and awesome kids, Amirah! She just got level 1 awards for solos in band tonight. Very proud (you can see she is too). I love my kids!
May 8, 2012
Can Repugs and Libtards actually listen to each other?
We all do it. Or at least I do occasionally. That funny thing about the “other” party shows up on Facebook and we pass it along. Whatever you think of Congress, it’s a fact that at one time there was a significant middle in Congress that worked together to get stuff done. Increasingly though, our [...]
