If you look hard enough you can find negative reviews of James Cameron's Avatar , and I suppose some of the notes about cliches and obt...

Got this on Facebook from a buddy of mine from way back. OK, way, way back, but I thought I'd bring it over here since these things are ...

We're well over a year past the chronic renal failure diagnosis for my cat Daisy. The initial news was devastating , as you know if you...

I usually wait until after Thanksgiving to kick off my personal holiday traditions, but I began a little early this year. Thanksgiving was ...

I'm nearing the end of the semester. I knew this was going to be a busy time, but things have been brutal beyond my wildest expectations...

Interesting creative writing class last night. I called the segment my "Pulling It All Together" session. I originally conceived t...

I'm making slow progress on many fronts. Blogging obviously hasn't been one of them for a while, but I thought I'd check in whic...

Got a new Flip Ultra for my birthday. Here's a quick test of it.

I have to teach a class in creative writing as part of my MFA requirement. In academic parlance it's a practicum. Every field has its ja...

My current MFA advisor has a reading list that was given to him by a professor of his, though he's refined it a bit. It's a wonderf...

I think the gist of Michael Pollan's New York Times Magazine piece "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch," which coincides wi...

After a quasi-hiatus, Fear on Demand is back for July with a new episode. Brett Williams aka @crucify_brett on Twitter contributed the bri...

Great week at grad school last week. Came home yesterday. Will probably write more, but for now, let me say it was all fabulous overall. Wal...

My MFA advisor and I have had a mini-debate about revision. Nothing serious. It's been intriguing. As roughly the midpoint of the book I...

My writing energy has been focused on the MFA novel/thesis of late, hence the dearth of blog posts. Sometimes there are just so many words i...

The June episode of Fear on Demand is now live. It's Episode 7. I'm kind of pleased to have made it this far. My grad school advis...

(Warning: Some content could be considered spoilers.) (Oops, in the first iteration of this post, I was partially asleep apparently and attr...

I sent my in the final packet of the semester for my creative writing program at Goddard College Wednesday, putting me at about the halfway ...

I ran across a blog contest via Twitter and decided to enter for the fun of it. I had a little trouble with the entry form, so I think a few...