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Thomas Sullivan: SEGAMI RORRIM

By Thomas Sullivan, on January 15th, 2012

If something has to be kept secret, it must be true. Secrets are self-proving. Lies are loud and wear red hats, e.g. Santa Claus. Okay, I’m being a tad glib here. I do not mean that only secrets are true or that all red hats – i.e. loud proclamations — are lies (your red hat [...]

Thomas Sullivan: ANGELS IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR

By Thomas Sullivan, on December 15th, 2011

There have been moments — bound in some way to a place or a period of time — that have taken my compassion to another level and made me a more complete writer. Such a time and place was a bitterly cold Christmas when I was living in an old men’s hotel filled with human [...]

Thomas Sullivan: HIGH WIRE WALKING ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON, IMAGINARY SHOELACES & AN ANNOUNCEMENT

By Thomas Sullivan, on November 15th, 2011

Happy to be able to offer a job – well, half a job – to any readers who are receptive to same. Here ‘tis. Q&A. You write the questions, I write the answers. Pay is just the same for both of us. Srsly. I am amazed at your feedback, touched by your sharing, daunted by [...]

Thomas Sullivan: FATE, DESTINY, SERENDIPITY, KARMA, KISMET AND STAR-CROSSED IRONIES & COINCIDENCES

By Thomas Sullivan, on October 15th, 2011

As one control freak to another… Uh-oh, way to go, Sully. You’ve alienated your entire readership already. But the essential thing about being human – about being anything with a pulse and choices – is trying to control one’s living conditions to make them beneficial to one’s self, isn’t it? AKA survival. Like I was [...]

Thomas Sullivan: SEX & ROMANCE, BORING BINGES, and WHY MOSQUITOES SHOULDN’T HAVE GUN PERMITS

By Thomas Sullivan, on September 15th, 2011

The Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition hisself – Torquemada – has nothin’ on you guys! What a bonanza of questions and comments came in from around the globe last month in response to the Q. & A. format. Probing, intelligent, deep and even beastly stuff – and damn near Truth or Dare. You’re having [...]

Thomas Sullivan: PANNING GOLD, FREEDOM, & THE GREAT SHOPPING CART FIASCO

By Thomas Sullivan, on August 15th, 2011

Help…I have locked myself in the bathroom with a loaded pistol and I don’t know how much time I have left before I pull the trigger. I know this is where I have to be now. It’s a desperate move, but I am desperate. I saw the mosquito fly in here, and if I don’t [...]

Thomas Sullivan: CHANNELING JACK KEROUAC or WHY WRITERS NEED TO GET OUT MORE

By Thomas Sullivan, on April 15th, 2011

I hope you’re as uncomfortable as hell. Nothing sucks like being too comfortable. Four walls are comfortable. 6 feet under is comfortable. Conversely, stepping outside your comfort zone is when you start to live, learn, grow. If you’re a writer, you thrive on being uncomfortable.

Yet when Norwegian publisher Jan Fredrik Lockert invited me to speak [...]

Thomas Sullivan: NORWAY OUT-TAKES FROM A WRITER’S DIARY or THE GIRL ON THE MOUNTAIN

By Thomas Sullivan, on March 16th, 2011

“I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here…”

Yeah, that’s one of my stock nonsense lines, but this month it makes sense. That’s because I’ve been hopping time zones for two weeks now and will continue to do so into April. Have recently returned from an exquisite trip to [...]

Thomas Sullivan: ZEN POT THROWING, COMBAT BOOTS, & 128 SQUIRRELS

By Thomas Sullivan, on September 16th, 2010

“Quiet onstage, please! Go live with the mics. Cue Aretha Franklin. R-E-S-P-E-C-T…find out what it means to me!”

Oh, that haunts me. See, I done a bad thing once…um, more than once. And it seriously disrespected Aretha. Can’t tell you the details because – well, I just can’t. But it has to do with 128 squirrels, [...]

Thomas Sullivan: A RED SHIRT, MOLASSES IN A FEATHERED WORLD, & THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL

By Thomas Sullivan, on August 16th, 2010

“Don’t worry. I forgot your name too.” That’s what my red T-shirt proclaims. I don’t wear it to be funny. I wear it out of fear. Names zip into and out of my ears like grease through a goose. I’m dense as a box of rocks when it comes to retaining that most basic of [...]

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