A book comes out, makes every bestseller list in the universe, and goes into a bejillion printings. It's only human to feel a little jealous, at first anyway, but too often we snipe at that writer, maybe just in our minds, maybe to our friends. Maybe, God forbid, on the Internet. I could do better than that, any day . . . It's all in who you know . . .
Some people get all the breaks . . .
There is a better and more constructive list we could make, on paper and in our minds. Something the readers liked. I list places I want to visit, in the U.S. and abroad. It constantly surprises me how often a chance will arise, seemingly out of nowhere, to visit a city or country I have noted, but there's no real magic to the phenomenon. When we set goals, and list them, we are more alert to the opportunities that are all around us.