My daughter, Melissa, and I just came back from a weekend in Conroe, TX, where she was interviewed for a possible job yesterday. She is working presently, and for the most part enjoying where she is. But the new position is in a better region, pays better with better benefits. We got there Friday afternoon … More Serendipity or Divine Plan?
My son, Matt, has lived many places over the years. With me and our family, he’s lived outside Chicago, San Diego, in northern California, in Idaho, and here in north Texas. Following his dream of film school and video production, he has lived in Seattle and Miami as well. Getting married to a Nebraska girl … More A great place to visit, but…
It’s Wednesday (I think). I just got up a few minutes ago. My wife got up with the dogs at 6:30 and has since gone back to bed. We are on stay-cation. For those who don’t know, stay-cation is vacation at home. Usually it happens, like us, when you’re broke. It’s a pain to be … More Stay-cation
I’ve been writing a long time. More specifically, I have been writing stuff off the mainstream for the past five years or so. I tend to choose stories that don’t comfortably fit into one genre or another. And because of this, I’ve often gotten the word from publishers and marketers that my stuff may be … More The Self-Publishing Experience
My father died of cancer at the age of 70. His death, with about three months notice, was a shock to all of us in the family. He was a relatively quiet, very humorous, intelligent man. For the most part, he educated himself. His greatest advances in education came when, at the age of 17, … More Letters from Iwo Jima
It’s a sobering thought, being human. Too often we get caught up in the trap of being young and feeling invulnerable. Invincible. Impervious to all bad things. I went from 1970 to 2009 with nary a hiccup other than the occasional visit to the ER for things like metal springs through fingers, starters falling on … More There and back again
You might have noticed that I haven’t posted for a few days. I have been busy working on my latest writing project, entitled “Elijah.” I am involved in a variation of National Novel Writing Month. Every November, several hundred thousand people pledge and encourage each other to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. I … More Five days left
What is love? Poets, philosophers, painters and pundits have tried for countless generations to help us understand the human condition, the crux of which in most people’s lives is centered on the concept of love. We are born to love our mother. We learn to love our father, and our siblings. In a perfect world, … More “This twisted thing called love”
One of the challenges of following your muse is that you are totally dependent on your muse continuing to provide you with ideas. I started my project “Crash Corrigan” with a totally different name for the book and an unclear path as to how to get from point a to point b, or even where … More And now….?
Chapter 8 “So what do we know?” Emily asked the other two that evening. She had invited them over, ostensibly to study, although none of them brought any textbooks. “I know now that Bud is not ready to listen to me,” Charlie said, still nursing his cheek with a cool washcloth where it had slammed … More Crash Corrigan–Ch. 8
