RAZORED ZEN

Well, here are some pics of our wedding. The first one is our wedding kiss. Then it's "Champagne Time." The fellow in the b...

I walk pretty frequently in my neighborhood and generally avoid houses where I can. That’s not always possible, however, and today I walked...

A major problem for those who aren't practiced at public speaking is the anxiety evoked by standing up in front of people to talk. I kn...

Posting pictures today. Lana and I got a digital camera for our wedding from one of her good friends, and yesterday we took a bunch of pics...

The November/December issue of Inside Northside magazine was published yesterday, and it contains an article by Ann Gilbert on “Northshore ...

Avery made a very good point in his comments on my yesterday’s post. He suggested making sure you’ve actually prepared more material than...

The first time I had to teach a class I thought I was going to throw up. Mouth dry and yet acidic. Gut screaming for a release that would ...

The Pagan Pride talk went off well, and I had so many questions after that they had to shut us down so the next speaker could talk. I enjoy...

Steve Malley has another great blog post on writing. Well worth checking out. As for me, I'm putting the finishing touches on my drea...

Well, I picked up my first negative review for Swords of Talera . Ouch! Amazing how much it hurts. What’s worse, I asked for the review. ...

One of the reasons why I posted my "Rainbow's Fall" dream yesterday is because I'm preparing a presentation for this Sunda...

* I come walking across a winter heath with a rainbow arching through gray skies above me. Sharply there comes a splintering crack, like ic...

Like the obsessive compulsive that I am, I keep records of what I read each year, and I date my reading year from my birthday rather than Ja...

The wedding came off with a hitch, as in we got hitched. (Ha ha ha. I just crack myself up.) But seriously, we had a great day. The cere...

I won't be posting today other than this brief comment. It's a special day for me. Lana and I are getting married! The ceremony w...

Psychological research shows that when someone is given a list of words to remember they tend to recall best the words that begin and end th...

I’ve been having a terrible time getting connected to the internet today, both at work and at home. It has taken me forever to get some com...

Yesterday I posted some of my power words, two of which created largely negative images in me. I don’t want to give the impression that suc...

Certain words evoke emotions and associations. They punch you where you read. Like a moss-slicked boulder in a creek, they break your thou...

How do you feel about the use of symbolism in what you read? What you write? I confess that I’m not a big fan of deliberate and conscious ...