by Bill LaBrie | Apr 20, 2015 | Essays
I get a lot of inspirational messages in my social media life. Most are from people fixated on success. Success in what? Oh, stuff. I guess. Just success. There’s this thing called “success” that everyone seems to want. We want to be...
by Bill LaBrie | Mar 13, 2015 | Essays
They have a saying in Bolivian medical schools. It’s meant to encourage/discourage those who study medicine: Estúdiase medicina con tu poto. What they mean is this: If you’re going to study medicine, get used to sitting. In medical schools anywhere in the...
by Bill LaBrie | Dec 18, 2014 | Writing
I like having fun. Things I think are fun are many and varied. To me, almost anything can be fun. This — more than anything else — is the key to my own particular brand of success, such as it is. When I decided to write my novel I set my computer up...
by Bill LaBrie | Sep 30, 2014 | Writing-Publishing
Well, Uncle Charles Bukowski — I’ve done my best. Nothing else I do seems to work out, either. Might as well write about it. so you want to be a writer? if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out...
by Bill LaBrie | Jun 24, 2014 | Careers, Cars, Education, Essays, Faith, Parenting
I think of the many articles I half-remember after half-reading once many years ago, there is one that stands out in my mind right now. It was in an Atlantic article about the lure of the Sahara. Europeans loved the Sahara back then. They likely still do. There was...
