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The Thumbtack
I don’t know how it ever started. I suppose the same way anything like this does, slow at first and escalating until things are completely out of control. At least that’s how it seems. Everything was fine one day and crazy the next. But it isn’t that I’m not to blame. I can’t say that [...]
New Focus For This Blog
I’m been wondering what to do with this blog. I keep my website up to date pretty well, which makes the blog kind of inefficient. On top of that, I don’t post blogs that often, which makes it even worse. So I’ve decided that I’m going to use this space to post some of my [...]
Went to See Legion This Weekend
I was in Dallas this weekend with my wife and daughter. We managed to squeeze in a movie and went to see Legion. We walked into the theater and it was almost empty. It made us wonder if we’d missed some bad reviews about it. But then it started. Wow! It was pretty darn good. [...]
Fern Gully on Steroids
I took my family to see Avatar yesterday. That includes a 14-year-old girl, a 21-year-old boy and parents who are…well, let’s just say were older. Universally, the four of us walked out in agreement that it was a good movie. Although the first 20 minutes seemed to be slow, it was necessary to set up [...]
A Day Without Writing
For the last month, I’ve been typing my little fingers off, trying to write a novel during the month of November for the National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo for short. Anyone who has known me for any length of time has heard me talk about NaNoWriMo on more than one occasion. The goal of [...]
Exercise Ball
Sitting in cube-city for a living, there isn’t a lot you can do to make life more interesting. But every once in a while, something comes along that make you sit up and take notice. Speaking of sitting, this came from a guy I used to work with. His name was Vaughn, Instead of sitting [...]
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An Enjoyable Read for Teens and Adults Alike
I just recently finished read Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan and I have to say, it was a nice read. It’s an older story, making its first appearance in 1990, so some of the references and dialogue was a bit dated, but not distractingly so. It’s a psychological thriller – almost horror – for [...]
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Convulsions
Saturday was a good day. Not only was it the Fourth of July, I had a drabble (a story of exactly 100 words) accepted for publication. The story is Convulsions and the market is Sex and Murder. I haven’t been submitting much lately, focusing on other projects, and it just felt good to have something [...]
Writing with Sarah
I was able to skip out of work a little early yesterday and I took my daughter, Sarah, to It’s a Grind to write. We both have Dell Mini netbooks so we took them with us. It was a lot of fun and pretty productive, even though it’s not a real comfortable place to write. [...]
Boys and Fireworks…and Regrets