RAZORED ZEN

The American gothic movement is often said to have begun with the book Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown, which was published in 1798 and w...

I haven’t worn my boots much lately. And when I slipped them on yesterday my foot discovered what felt like a pile of dirt and pebbles in t...

“A sunfish, in one spangled moment Beating with Light the throttling air” Loren Eiseley “…man has gotten lost in a desert of terrible fr...

Well not every one of my posts these days will be experimental stuff. Tonight’s is an update on what I’ve been doing in the reading and wri...

The ceremony was brief. Darkness never looked so lovely. She swept down the aisle in her velvet gown with the twinkles of stars sewn into ...

The wind purrs through the trees. A crow caws at a distance. A cardinal darts for a feeder in the yard, its wings not quiet silent. On th...

It’s been said that creativity is not about seeing the world; it’s about seeing the world in a way no one else does. I first heard that say...

We’re backkkk! As you can see, I caught at least one monster bass! The pictured fish, of course, is the minnow that I used to catch the mo...

Well, we're leaving on Tuesday for vacation and won't be back until the end of next weekend. Since we'll be in the wilds I won...

“Heat beat down on my shoulders, my face cloth. My armor dragged at the riding sores underneath. Little sparkles danced behind my eyelids,...

I’ve mentioned before that I seldom have truly scary dreams. There are a lot of monsters in my dreams, vampires, devils, psychopathic kille...

Well, the good news is that I've turned in all my grades, except for 2 students who didn't show up for the final test and who I'...

Well, the first thing I’ve been doing to shake myself up a bit is read things I don’t normally read. To that end, I’ve finished the first t...

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...