I’m flying to Wyoming tomorrow to participate in the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop, which is funded by NASA.  The best description of what it’s about can be found in its tag line: improving science literacy through words and media. Rock on!  Also, … [Read more...]

10:00-11:00 Marvel X-Men— Following Second Coming, Marvel’s merry mutants are unable to catch a quick breather. As Curse of the Mutants begins, there’s no telling what the vampires have in store for the X-Men...or is there? You’ve got questions & these … [Read more...]

We’ve got storms!  I love it!  Daisy doesn’t mind, either, but that might be because she’s beginning to hint for ice cream. Also, this Saturday at 8:00 PM I’ll be on ISIS Paranormal Radio. Please, call in with questions! … [Read more...]

...are growing things!  I’ve mentioned a couple times, here and on Twitter, that I’m trying to grow a garden this year.  I’ve got some tomatoes planted in the ground down by the old farmhouse, but I’m also experimenting with container … [Read more...]

A note I wrote to myself in the manuscript, that I had forgotten all about: “Next, she detects.” Which may not seem like a big deal, but I promise you, it has made my morning a lot easier. … [Read more...]

Fantastic interview from the Paris Review with E. B. WHITE: INTERVIEWER Do you have any warm-up exercises to get going? WHITE Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. … [Read more...]

What about the creative state?  In it a man is taken out of himself.  He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach.  He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he … [Read more...]

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. --Lawrence Kasdan *** The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. “It turns out that being exposed to cultures that function differently from our own – from language to social customs to … [Read more...]

I don’t have a green thumb, by any stretch of the imagination, but I have been trying to grow things this year.  Plenty of land, right?  And, lo!  I have peppers.  I also have tomatoes (quite a few, actually, but I ate them all before I whipped out the … [Read more...]

I thought you’d like to see the paws that are carrying me along as I finish this book.  It’s a team effort.  Honestly, they’re the brains behind the operation. Daisy. The Poodle. Head of Household.  Boss.  Fashion Icon. (Note: this is not a recent photo, and she would likely … [Read more...]