The “Stay Hungry” ebook is finally here! Only $5 for 44-pages of photos and story you can’t get in the magazine articles or blog posts - including photos of my father at the last family reunion, seven months before he passed away; photos of the inside of the van after 2009 remodeling.
The past two years have been a tremendous time for personal growth for me - not always reflected in this blog, but often touched on in many of my posts. There have been more and more opportunities …

(this lengthy post is a story, an amazing, never ceases to stun me sequence of events in my life, true story)
(Okay, that’s me 30 pounds ago - I LOST the 30) leaning over to shake author and TED Global Speaker Dan Pink’s hand after my TED talk in Oxford, England in 2009.)
Never say never because HOPE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY.
By that I mean never say miracles never happen. Never say “It won’t get better.” Miracles happen and it does get better. And yes, “Hope does find a way.”
Three years before …

Affection delayed is not always affection denied.
He sounds old and his voice is tired. It’s been fifteen years since I’ve heard it, but it’s definitely him.
I am caught in that melodramatic made-for-television moment where I learn that my estranged father is dying of brain cancer and I have only - days? weeks? months? - to “set things right” between us.
I have to laugh. I’m a writer, and I never would have dreamed up such a trite, overdone scenario. But here I am, actually living it. It gets better: I get …

A compass points to “true north,” leaving “east, south, and west sort of out of the picture. Unless you know how compasses work, you don’t appreciate that a compass pointing to the north is also pointing us to a southern, eastern or western direction. In other words, “True north” for the compass is determined by the magnetic pull of the earth. It’s the only way the needle can point. But by pointing to the true (really the magnetic) north, travelers can determine which way they want to go - and …

(Becky Blanton shaking hands with Daniel Pink at the end of her talk at TED Global 2009)
Once the TED video was posted some of my friends commented about my having finally arrived or accomplished the ultimate. Others assume that that was the “happy ending” and I returned to an easy life and lots of accolades. I didn’t. Life has pretty much been the same. I do a few radio or book interviews, but mostly my life is the same.
I work. I look for work. I “stay hungry.” …