The 4th of July was a hoot this year. Laura's daughter Veronica won first prize for her Statue of Liberty costume at the Carrboro Hooha...

Today being Father's Day, Laura and I were talking about our fathers and she mentioned that her dad had once had a serious discussion wi...

So tonight I read that the Terri Shiavo autopsy showed severe brain damage. It made me realize something that I've always known, but did...

Where to begin? Last weekend, a pipe burst in my apartment. I had been fixing an outside faucet, and when I went back down to turn on the ...

So, over the weekend I went out and bought a new (well, new ish ) Scion XB. These are boxy little cars by Toyota that get great gas mileage...

A few months back (in a post I've since deleted, since it was part of my angel story and I very ghoulishly intend to market the story), ...

Am I a nut to think that if Eric Rudolph had been a left wing environmental terrorist or an islamic terrorist who killed two people an injur...

So, last Saturday night I finished the latest revisions on my novel Bitterwood. Then, Sunday, yardwork, then, Monday, I started my new job...

Sorry for the paucity of postings lately. I've been in the final crunch on my novel Bitterwood, polishing it up to prepare for submissi...

Sorry for the paucity of postings lately. I've been in the final crunch on my novel Bitterwood, polishing it up to prepare for submissi...

I'm not sure if anyone notice earlier this month when the world was knocked slightly further atilt on its axis. Perhaps the world didn...

Attended Stellarcon over the weekend and it was a blast. Lord have mercy, I done got geekiness all over me, not that I wasn't reeking o...

Tomorrow's my birthday. For the last five years or so it's turned into sort of a tradition for my friend Greg and I to hit the road...

I can't say I'm shocked to learn that Hunter S. Thompson has taken his own life. If one tenth of the stuff in his books is true, he...

This was actually the start of a 45k word novella that I've never shown anyone: Story one: Chase was so far from normal values now that ...

Sorry about the long gap in posts. Last week, I actually posted thirteen blog entries on the codexwriters blog, as part of a challenge to my...

Solethiel, angel of sensible shoes. Raznagoth, angel of power lines. Abrazel, angel of of highways. Volilov, angel of mirrors. Y...

Zaviel, angel of the whirlwind. Curaniel, angel of Monday. Akriel, angel of barrenness. Zalbesael, angel of the rainy season. Ya...

The most disturbing story of the week has to be the widely published report that fidgeting can help lose weight. The conclusions don't ...

In my last post, I talked about "ghost words," words that entered the dictionary by mistake. There is a very common ghost word tha...