Six years ago, I self-diagnosed myself with Reverse Culture Shock, or RCS, an emotional displacement syndrome. I know this because, after 7 years of doing reverse immigration to the States in 2007, I stumbled upon the symptoms of Reverse Culture Shock on an archived U.S. State Department's home page. Suddenly, I felt recognized and validated [...]
I may be an SEO consultant in Pittsburgh but I've been helping businesses and companies worldwide grow and get discovered with the right keyphrases and keywords. Content is "KING" in SEO. Here's how my SEO writing brain thinks: I think like a person, not a robot. I write for people - your target audience's pain [...]
When my writing coach and editor Brooke Warner recently posted about the return of the investment in marketing and publicity, I started getting heart palpitations. It reminded me of a conversation I had with myself. Here's what did me in: "To make money in book publishing, you are best off looking at your first book [...]
If you've been following my posts of late, then you know how much courage has become part of my life. And as a writer, I need constant doses of courage. I highly relate to the journey Destiny speaks of - read on to learn a unique and different perspective of courage. The Courage to Write [...]
Yesterday, I attended a wonderful writing conference at Chatham University here in Pittsburgh called Connections and Conversations. When I attended the conference last year, I was a writer trying to figure out the gist of my memoir Accidental Soldier. Now that my memoir is scheduled to be published in June 2016, I am now officially, [...]
Chapter 10 of my memoir, Accidental Soldier: What My Service in the Israel Defense Forces Taught Me About Faith, Courage and Love and I'm faced with a daunting task of writing about a bullying scene which is key to solving my problem with a specific garin member, who happens to be British and a new immigrant. [...]
Doritos? Like what the fuck? How did he know to call me that name? He’s a Brit. They don’t have Doritos over there. Or do they? I want to tell him to go to hell. To shut the fuck up. I’ve been traumatized by the name “Doritos” all my public school life and right now, [...]
Each day when I go to write at our local library or our neighborhood coffee shop to write my memoir, Silence: What the Israel Defense Forces Taught Me about Faith, Empowerment and Courage, I'm already filled up with nervous anticipation: will I make progress with this scene? Can I get into the right mood and [...]