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Things that demonstrate that man is still human: using utensils to eat real food. Or using tools of any sorthandwriting and arithmetic, and using them to write a letter to your mother or a friend, or calculate the perimeter of your backyardlocomotion by any organic...

Today marks the first day of my new career as a writer, that is, not as a hobby or something to piddle around with on evenings and weekends. Today, liberated from a traditional American employment model, I now set out to discover what it means to be a professional...

(This post was written long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, probably in 2016 but not published until 2018) Aside from the title, which was way more auspicious than the film delivered, I was sad for Oscar Isaac, an actor that I like, that he was cast in such a...

Unacceptable ways of dying: after a long, desperate, nauseated, hairless battle with terminal cancer by withdrawal of sustenance after being kept alive artificially by some silly accident when I am so old and senile I can't take care of myself, like falling and...

(written 6/2017) There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen enough pornography that they can watch Closer without getting squeamish, and those who have not and cannot. I am not joking. There are seriously, literally these two categories. Those...

I wrote in November [2015] that the cover art for The Former Hero was a semi-finalist in the AuthorsDB.com Cover Art Contest. I didn't bother to update the post when I learned I was a finalist. But now that the final results are in, and my book has won a Bronze Award,...

Topology Magazine published a short piece of mine today called "Water." You can read it here. It is mostly fictional. But it does accurately describe our family about 6-8 years ago when things were very tight financially. The theme of this Topology issue is...

Here's a few movies I have seen lately and a brief word about each. Far From the Madding Crowd Short answer: this movie caught my interest early. I enjoyed the English countryside and the subtlety of the main characters. So despite my final criticism, I can recommend...

This was an eventful week for The Former Hero with two significant pieces of news. First, I received notice that I was a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Award in the genre of Thriller (alas, they don't have a category for "Speculative, Psychological, New...