A writer friend of mine just put together a video blog answering questions about National Novel Writing Month. Here is a link. Video blogs are another thing to put on my to do list. Later, dudes and dudettes.      

Over the years, I have learned to give myself different rules than I give everyone else. Whenever I have a deadline, I demand that I finish a day or two before the deadline. When I have a word count for a certain day, I try to do more. This process of adding a cushion has … More Reality Bites Back

A year or so ago, I had gone home for lunch, and was returning to work in my truck when a vulture vomited on me. That’s not usually what one would expect when driving to work after lunch. I looked up through the window just in time to see the vulture’s steaming, stinking lunch sail … More Stuff Happens

The Oakland Raiders are in preseason, and I had preregistration for my surgery today. So while the Raiders and Cowboys are going at it Thursday night, I’ll be recovering from having five incisions across my Central America and moving Panama back to where it belongs. The letter they sent me said that I needed to … More Archive: Pardon me, may I pee in your cup?

I was driving to a doctor’s appointment in my Ford F-150 pickup yesterday, mentally slogging through my usual mundane worries and stresses. The street from the freeway to the doctor’s office in Fort Worth took me past a parking garage with a sidewalk between the garage and the street. As I drove in the right … More Saving a Life

Just as I promised, here is the sequel to yesterday’s blog entitled “What MEN really want.” It’s pretty obvious that it’s not much of a stretch for me to think about what I want from women and generalize it to all men. And right after finishing it, I realized half a dozen other things that … More From the Archive: What WOMEN Really Want

I came to the realization this morning that one of the big reasons I haven’t been writing more than I have is because I have been waiting for something profound to say. First big mistake. The second was believing that you actually had to know something about what you are writing about. I can list … More Archive: What MEN Really Want

  “Wass mann nicht sterbt, macht mann stark.”–Nietsche I wrote a couple of days ago about how each of us has a story that we are destined to tell. That story could have been something that had been told them in their childhood, a tradition passed on in their family, an experience they had, or … More From the Archive: Scars

In twenty minutes, the first class of the first day of classes of the 2012-2013 school year begins for me. I will approach it with an optimistic attitude. I will be prepared for all of my classes, with plenty of time to grade and review my students’ work. I will be able to accomplish my … More In Twenty Minutes….

I got a call yesterday in my office. My son and daughter in law–who live with us–called to tell me that the doorknob to our outer door had broken. It was exposed to the weather and several years old, and the mechanism had been sticking for a while, so I knew it was time to … More Archive: Fixing Things