RAZORED ZEN

Do you ever feel the need to shake things up? To shake yourself up? I've been feeling a bit that way lately. It's not boredom. I...

I’m back for the weekend. I’ll be making the blog rounds today. Then the grading starts again on Monday. We’re nearing the end, though. ...

Some of you are faculty type folks, or have been, and know the kinds of things a college teacher does on a day to day basis, but even among ...

OK, I’ve been getting an education since I posted my “Ich bin ein Trekker” piece. I knew there was fan fiction out there, and that there wa...

I forgot to mention that the Book Roast is going on all this week. That means a chance to win free books, as well as have some fun answeri...

"Trekker!" That's Trekkie to some. Star Trek , with the original crew, remains one of the very few--perhaps only--TV show th...

I watched a couple of movies this weekend while off for Easter: Lakeview Terrace and Quarantine. Both were sadly flawed. Lakeview Terrace...

First, I'm sorry I haven't been around visiting blogs much this week. Besides feeling a bit down, I got the rough drafts from my wr...

Robert E. Howard fandom has lost two tireless supporters of late. And I’ve lost two friends. First, Steve Tompkins died March 23rd, althou...

I haven't talked about my Writing in Psychology class as much as I thought I might this spring, but I just gave my class an assignment t...

One book I picked up at garage sale day was The Colorado Kid by Stephen King. I can’t say I’m enjoying it much so far. I’m about 40 pages...

Well, to make up for the week of torrential downpours, nature treated us Saturday and Sunday to absolutely stunning days. Clear skies of cr...

First, hard drive failure on Monday: No writing accomplished. School work only. Second, reloading reformatted hard drive, Tuesday and Wedn...

Well, my work computer entered a terminal loop Monday morning when I tried to boot it up. Our ITC department came to pick it up and I found...

James Reasoner nominated me for this award last Sunday, and a little later Shauna Roberts also nominated me. I much appreciate it James a...

At lunch yesterday I had a debate with a colleague and friend of mine about fairness. We were first talking about students doing group proj...

Here's something that came to me last week. Mainly just a scene. I'm not quite sure where it's going, and so far haven't f...

Not much writing going on in my world. Midterms are done but everything else that backed up behind that is now due. I've got two IRB p...

Well, I finished mid-terms and now I’d like to go to sleep. Unfortunately, I have a late meeting this afternoon so I’m still in the office....

Three days! After my last round of grading I had three glorious days to work on Wraith of Talera . Since it had been a couple of months si...