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  • Once Upon a Time, I Broke the Law

    Have you ever unintentionally broken the law? Yes. I cut off a police officer’s vehicle while driving. It was an unfortunate incident, one of those galling moments that ambushes and commandeers an otherwise perfectly fine day. I was driving home from dinner with some friends. So far, so good. It was after dark, and I… Read more

  • A Literary Sleight of Hand: Writing Characters Who Aren’t Good People

    Work on my third book is, as they say, “proceeding apace.” Third draft is halfway done, and I’m actually somewhat happy with it. It’s an interesting subject I’ve chosen. My two published works, A God Walks Up to the Bar and The Trickster’s Lament, are urban fantasy following the Greek god Hermes in our modern… Read more

  • Smartphones

    The most important invention in your lifetime is… The smartphone. Not the cellular phone in general, but specifically the smartphone with its advanced computing capabilities, online access and instant information retrieval. Cell phones have been around a long time, before I was born, but the smartphone came into its own during my lifetime. Funny how… Read more

  • Tuesday

    Poor, poor Tuesday. What is there to say about you? All the other days are praised or cursed, but what does Tuesday get? Monday is a day despised, the beginning of the long slog, the harbinger of work and drudgery. Everyone hates Monday. Wednesday is the halfway point, the glimmer of hope, where everything after… Read more

  • T.S. Eliot on Writing

    Whoever said that writing is easy? If you ever feel discouraged or inadequate as a writer, remember that it’s not just you. What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all… Read more

  • The Computers of Yesteryear

    Write about your first computer. The first time I ever used a computer was back in the ancient days of dial-up, GeoCities and flip phones. My parents owned a word processor. No, not a computer. A word processor. As in, an electronic box with a blank, black screen on which you could type sentences and… Read more