RAZORED ZEN

I am told there are such beings as literary agents. I’ve even seen their footprints and heard their apparent calls in the great wilds of th...

I haven’t been keeping up with blogs well because I’m very busy working on a 2000 word article on “Fear” for a Mental Health reference book....

Well, I’m scrounging for blog posts at the moment, not having a lot of time outside of work to “think.” So, here’s a follow-up to my last p...

Some of you will get the references in this drunken piece of drivel, but only if you're a fan of a certain Little Old Band. There's...

I’ve seen quite a few blog posts lately on political issues. It’s understandable, given the times and the upcoming election. But I’m often...

The response to my Monday post suggested how important mood is to writing. It started me thinking that one of the primary goals of writing ...

Drove through a cemetery sky the color of steel-wool this morning. And "through" is the exact word. On the Causeway bridge over ...

How cool is this! I just won a $25.00 gift certificate over at the Book Roast for a t-shirt slogan idea I posted. There were some great e...

Dear Princess: Clearly from our interactions on the highway this morning, I am not suited to share the road with your highness. However, be...

Feel like rocking tonight. Listening to old Black Sabbath. “Sweet Leaf.” “Snow Blind.” “The Warning.” If there’s a soundtrack to evil, ...

Is it already Saturday? How time flies when you have electricity. I remarked to Lana during the “Lost Days” as we refer to them, how slow ...

Just a short note to say Lana and I got our power back this evening and can finally start to claw out from under our backlog of messages. S...

Well, it's a bit after 10:00 pm here at Fortress Gramlich, and so far we've had no trouble. A band of rain squalls came through aro...

Yesterday, I finished reading Bits of the Dead , the zombie anthology I’ve mentioned here. Although it has hits and misses like any antholo...

Although Gustav is at current a tropical storm only, the coast is taking this one seriously. Xavier has already cancelled classes as of thi...

I’ve started the commute to work again and that means listening to the radio. I have a CD player but I tend to listen to the radio because ...

Language sure is fun. Just in the last couple of days I’ve heard new words, new to me at least, which seemed obvious after I heard them. ...

As usual, I underestimated the mass of work that slams me during the first school days. I tried to have as many things done ahead of time a...

I know better, but I made a mistake the other day in a story submission. I wanted to send a story to an anthology featuring strong women ch...

Back from Arkansas. As I expected, there was no time to blog or check blogs. I spent the days visiting with mom and family. And doing a f...