Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.