How To Practice Effectively

***James is the author of 5 books, including I Cannoli Imagine: My Italian Life. You can reach him HERE.

A Farmer’s Life – Tone Poem

I wrote this song a few years back. It’s a tone poem, meant to paint a picture of a Farmer’s Life. If you would like the sheet music, get a free pdf copy at www.jamesdivine.net/farmer. ***James is the author of 5 books, including I Cannoli Imagine: My Italian Life. You can reach him HERE.

Education Reimagined

Education is in an upheaval. Teachers have been forced to learn how to teach online practically overnight. Parents were forced to suddenly become their child’s coach, teacher, and counselor. All this while we are at record unemployment rates, with many working from home while still supervising their kids. What if we took advantage of this …

I Thought I Was Going To Jail

The summers of 2010-2012 I was driving every week to Weatherford, Oklahoma to work on a master’s degree in music education. The trip took me through the Texas panhandle. The panhandle gets its name because when you view Texas on a map, there’s a thin stretch of land in the northwest corner that – when …

I Was a 7th Grade Bully

Throughout my childhood, I was often picked on and bullied. I was somewhat of a momma’s boy. I was not close to my father. I had a high emotional IQ and cried easily…the men in my life pounded into me (sometimes literally) that men don’t cry. One day in 7th grade things turned around… Red …

Get A First Down

In an interview of Lou Holtz – famous college football coach and analyst – he was asked what type of goals did he inspire his award winning teams to achieve. Was it to win the game? Score a certain number of touchdowns? Block passes? No. Lou instructed his teams to “Get a first down.” If …

Get Started Writing a Book

Go to Udemy to enroll in the course. Udemy offers a 30 day money back guarantee. I think that EVERYONE has a book inside of them, but maybe they just don’t know how to get started writing it. In this course, I teach you the steps I used to create my own six books. You …