One reason it hasn't been too dificult to cut back on my news consumption (see my previous post), is that some of my once favorite right...

So, I spent most of the week steering clear of the news, but broke down yesterday and read a newspaper at lunch. I'd been hearing chatt...

Sorry for the lack of updates the last two weeks. I took a vacation and went down to Myrtle Beach and avoided the internet as much as possi...

As of July 1, Team Dragon met its fundraising goal of $1000 for the Susan G. Koman Foundation. I've had 33 contributors, a couple of wh...

Below is the screen shot of the Amazon home page when I signed in earlier today at a public computer. It's tiny, but if you click on it...

Yesterday, Books for Breasts passed the $1000 mark on funds collected, and I still have about 20 books left to give away! Back in 2004, the ...

Followers of my blogs, and the readers who read the acknowledgement pages of my books, will know that I lost my partner Laura Herrmann to br...

Health care reform is probably the biggest legislative goal of the Obama presidency. I have no doubt that, by the end of the summer, some so...

Observers of politics this week saw two of Obama's biggest legislative initiatives crash and burn. We'll maybe not burn, but at lea...

Veronica Gray, Simon Gray, Me, Andy Herrmann, Jessica Herrmann, James Herrman, and the top of Maggie's head (in stroller). June 13 Sus...

A few months after Laura died of cancer, I went the Bodyworks exhibit, where corpses were preserved with plastic. Peeled and posed, they sh...

I read comic books faithfully for over thirty years. I got hooked on them as a kid, collected them as a teen, and accumulated them weekly as...

A few months ago, I launched my "Ten Reasons to Believe in God, or Why I am an Atheist" series. I think at this point, I've t...

Barack Obama is on the record as saying, "Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nati...

Stairs at Hatteras Lighthouse. There are 240 of 'em. Lake Mattamuskeet, a big honkin' lake Egrets, we saw a few, but then again, ...

I went to Laura's grave to leave some flowers. It turned out that the earth was already quite generous in this regard... the whole secti...

Driving home tonight, I was listening to news about Arlen Specter switching to the Democrats. I'm not happy about it, not because I pa...

John Brown, a fellow writer, posted a grid on his blog this weekend designed by another writer, Lon Prater, that shows a four quadrant analy...

The discussion in the thread of my last post came on the heels of my discussing writing on a thread at a forum called ImpishIdea . A write...

I was contacted over the weekend by a fellow named Mike Moore who has created a Squidoo "lens" on my Dragon Age novels. I confess...