My legs, 3000 miles later   Endomondo Summary, showing total distance I've tracked.    Two weeks ago, I logged into Endo...

I woke up this 4th of July thinking about freedom, and whether the word still holds any true meaning at all after so many years of being deb...

Next week on Wednesday, June 10, I'll be at the North Regional Library in Raleigh at 6:30 p.m. to lead a discussion called "The ...

 April 2010     April 2015   Last weekend, Cheryl and I drove up to Virginia. Our travels took us past places we'd visit...

  ORANGE COUNTY, NC (January 12, 2015)—The Orange County Arts Commission is pleased to announce James Maxey, a speculative fiction auth...

Several years ago, I was a guest on Stephen Euin Cobb's The Future and You  and one of the topics we discussed was the likelihood of loc...

Picking back up where I left off a month ago on my predictions, today I'm going to talk about what books might look like five years, ten...

James and Cheryl 2014    James and Cheryl 2012 Endomondo Training stats as of 9-6-2014   Two years ago, Cheryl and I deci...

A loose definition of a cyborg is a blending of a biological entity with mechanical devices that enhance strength, toughness, intelligence, ...

I've been with my current employer for almost 19 years. I won't specify who I work for; you can see my last post for various reasons...

Orwell was right. We now live in a world where we're constantly watched. It's not just grainy black and white footage captured by se...

I'm heading to a science fiction convention in a few hours and will be on a few panels where I'll probably wind up talking about the...

At ConCarolina's last weekend, I was on a panel to discuss Creationism/Intelligent Design vs Evolution. I had a hunch the panel would...

So, it turns out this world wide web thing might not be a fad after all. Despite having two blogs and a Facebook page, I've never tak...

Cheryl and I are constantly thinking about what our next physical challenge should be. A fifty mile bike ride? Been there, done that. Hiking...

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig when I was in college. At the time, it had a big impact of my thinking. I...