Author: Joseph Carrabis

Groundhog Day – Pull a Bill Murray

On this day in 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, it gets scared and runs back into its burrow, predicting six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring.

Bill Murray betters himselfAnd that simple little movie, Groundhog Day, became iconic of personal change, self-recognition and the will to be better.

But most people focus on the repeating of a hellish day, not that Bill Murray worked to make it better and worth living.

So how about today and just for today, you work to make yourself better so that your day can be better.

Keith Guernsey – Overcoming Adversity through Love and Sports

Keith Guernsey on overcoming brain surgery, falling in love and writing the book of your life

UPDATE

Keith Guernsey took the Plunge and he’s doing good deeds: From now until the end of March, Keith will be donating $1.00 for every copy of Confessions of a Beantown Sports Junkie ordered to the Jimmy Fund. Let’s support this very worthy cause!
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Keith GuernseyHello all and welcome to our fourth Author Interview Plunge. Today’s guest is Keith Guernsey. Everyone, please stand up and give Keith a big round of applause for taking part in our exciting adventure.
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Paul John Adams – Taking It to the Extremes

Paul John Adams on lionizing a hero of gang warfare and more!

Gang Warfare and Extreme Psychopathology Author Paul John AdamsWelcome, everyone, to our third Author Interview Plunge. Today we have the pleasure of talking with Gang Warfare, Extreme Psychopathology and self-described absurdist author Paul John Adams.

My first book…I want to kill it.

 
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Donna Huston Murray – Smart and Witty Mysteries

Cozy Philadelphia? Not after reading Donna Huston Murray’s Thrillers!

Smart/Witty Mystery Author Donna Huston MurraryHello and welcome to our second Author Interview Plunge. Today’s guest is mystery author Donna Huston Murray.

Everyone, please stand up and give Donna a big round of applause for taking part in our Author Interview Plunge series.

I got to page 50 and couldn’t remember what I’d done with the gun.

 
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Revisiting Jill Nelson’s “Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View”

Where’d that gun come from? And watch where you’re lookin’, lady.

I reviewed Jill Nelson’s “Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View” previously and still give the book high marks.

I highlighted several concepts and dogeared several pages during my first read. The book stayed on my desk and I kept getting closer and closer to a reread.

Rereading is a Josephism. I often reread books that I learn from or enjoy, a dog sucking the last bit of marrow from a bone.

I mentioned in that previous review that Nelson’s examples could be better, that there were some I had to work at to understand and in truth, even after considerable work some didn’t make sense.

Last night, during a reread, my diligence prevailed and I found (what are to me) some logic holes.

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