Heh – haven’t been writing as much as I’d hoped these past two weeks. Well, writing, yes, but not coming up with anything post-worthy to share. Last night was nice, […]

Okay – sorry about that. One of the rules of NaNoWriMo, and the advice of many prominent authors, is to just write, and not worry too much about grammar, continuity […]

Out of Pittsburgh on Southwest Airlines at dusk, somewhere a couple of hours short of my connection in Las Vegas. I’ve got Alanis on the headphones, which tells me that […]

Turns out, once you’ve spent a couple of months writing fiction, it’s a bit of a rocky road getting back on the travel writing wagon. Because, you know, if it’s […]

Hiya! Sorry about that. Yeah, I know the blog’s gone kind of quiet lately. Since Christmas morning, in fact, right. I’ve been, um, distracted. Well, not distracted – I think […]

54 years ago, my parents married on Christmas day. Their friends weren’t doing anything, and everyone had the day off, so it seemed like a reasonable choice. And no one […]

Family is wonderful. There are times when I could spend, oh, entire hours with my family without going crazy. No, really. Contrary to our outward social appearances, Devon and I […]

Author’s note: Below, I tried, and actually succeeded in writing what I was intending to write about. Unfortunately, it’s turned out all inarticulate and rambly [yes, M, that *was* a […]

Happy Centennial, folks! Modulo the +20h time shift, today is the 100th anniversary of when Roald Amundsen, leading Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting became the first […]

I think my life has been guided as much by Walter Mitty as by any other fictional character. The weird thing is that, against all odds (there, I’ve said it), […]