RAZORED ZEN

Tomorrow marks a twenty year anniversary of sorts for me. On January 1, 1989, I made a vow in the journal I was starting to keep. On that...

I recently read Doc Savage: Man of Bronze , the first in the Doc Savage series. I thought it was pretty bad. In fact, I’ve never been a fa...

If I die tomorrow I’ll call your name From the dirt I’ll sing this song In the white; In the smoke And you’ll know The last word I whispered...

Like many bloggers, I’m going to take off a few days from blogging to celebrate the holidays. It’s also possible that I’ll head up to Arkan...

I have a series of posts related to writing that I’ve finished, but I’ve decided to wait until the new year to start running them. Get 2009...

I just finished a great book, and even greater, it’s the first in a series. I always love finding a compelling new series to read. The book...

A generational spaceship had been discovered which was inhabited by two different alien races. Both had been reduced to a relatively simple...

I watched two movies yesterday. First, I watched Treasure Planet , an animated retelling of Treasure Island , set in a future with sailed s...

I woke up a little after 8:00 Thursday morning to an amazing sight. It was snowing! Literally snowing. Actual flakes instead of the occas...

All finals given. Grading has commenced. Brain slowly collapsing under the pressure. Mental failure imminent. Failure imminent! Further bl...

How much does your already established mood influence your enjoyment of poetry, fiction, and movies? A couple of days ago I started reading...

I did a post about women being weird, so it only seems fair that I’d expose some of the odder tendencies of my own gender. Of course, not a...

Moonrat mentioned the “National Day of Listening” the other day. She suggested we send her links to our own “Day of Listening” stories, wh...

December 1. One more week of classes and then final exams. After that it’ll be Christmas break. There’ll be a lot of work before then, th...

First let me wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and forgive me for not getting around for all my regular blog visits today. I didn’t get t...

The Sphinxy one tagged me, and since I was casting around for my next post I thought: Why not? It’s “Six Random Things About Me.” Or may...

First, thanks very much to both Laughingwolf and Demon Hunter for giving me this award. Ain’t she a beaut? It probably won’t be a surpri...

I finished reading The Year of Living Biblically and really enjoyed it. I thought the author, A. J. Jacobs, did a good job of taking a fai...

Standard thinking is that good characters avoid being stereotypes. I think that’s a bit oversimplified. Consider a character named “Joe.” ...

A couple weeks back in my critique group we went over a writer’s chapter in which two women have a confrontation and argument revolving arou...