Wicked problems and writing

End of November again.  Must be time to update the blog. I finished the novel I was working on last November, not in time for the 2014 NaNoW...

I hadn't talked to him in a few months. I would say I've been busy; I started a new job, wrote a new book, and have been learning ...

I thought at one point that I wanted to be a critic.  It was (get ready for big laffs) right after I took ENG 601 - "Introduction to Li...

I took a month off.  It happens sometimes; life's like that.  I wasn't being very literary; I was being caught up in the world of pr...

My goal was to aim for higher things with this blog, for deeper philosophies, for things that people will think are worth reading some day. ...

Traditionally, I think, in most children's storytelling, you gotta have a bad guy, and it helps if you have at least one or two good guy...

I have an epsom problem; admitting it is the first step.  I stayed up late tonight, reluctant to go soak in a bath full of the stuff, but kn...

I wasn't really sure what it meant to heal from grief until I took some time to think about the word "closure."  What does tha...

I've been reading a lot of CS Lewis the past few days.  When I was a young lad, maybe thirty years ago, he was my favorite author becaus...

I guess that title is a misnomer.  A blog that no one else reads isn't a blog; it's a diary.  So old diaries would be a better name,...

Lauren, I've been trying to be a writer as long as I can remember.  Bursts of bad poetry, endless study of concepts like anapests an...

Everyone in the twitterverse is all a-twitter about this ridiculous photo of a dress.  Leaving behind the mindless chirping for a moment (...

I live near DC, and I tend to think of a lot of their local issues as my local issues.  This works out pretty well for me, as they have some...

The website Fark used to have an automatic filter on it -- whenever anyone posted the phrase "first post," the software would rep...