My apologies for not writing in such a long time. November was consumed by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Then came the holidays, hard on its heels. And as if that wasn't distraction enough, we were hit with Snowpocalypse 2008, the mother...

Contrary to what you might think from visiting here, I'm still looking at the right side of the grass. Late summer has been tough for writingit always is for me. Soon enough, the skies will turn to lead, the chill will roll in from the coast, and the...

It's been a tough summer. For a whole bunch of reasons, the passage of the last few months has left me feeling tense and strung out, with a knot of gristle lodged in my chest that just wouldn't let go. I wrote a while back about white space and the...

Your brother in law, the one who drives a Lotus and wears a pinkie ring, just showed up at your doorstep. It seems his fast living has led him down a bit of a rat hole, and there are some bad guys chasing him who will break his legs (and yours) if...

You know you've been away from blogging too long when you get a login prompt on your own admin control panel. I actually had to squint at the ceiling for a minute before I remembered my own username and password. Now that I'm back in, I think I'm...