RAZORED ZEN

The Talera trilogy-- Swords of Talera , Wings Over Talera , and Witch of Talera --was published in book form in 2007, although it was writte...

I've been reading a pretty good book lately but the author occasionally does something that bothers me. I might even call it a pet peeve...

Those of you who have been hanging with me for a long time may know that I have a deep "disrespect" for the book Requiem for a Dre...

I like my colleagues. We work hard and I think we do a lot of good things for our students, but we also have fun.  When I was chair back m...

I've been a fan of the show The Big Bang Theory for a little over a year now. I've caught most of the episodes in reruns, although ...

School has started again and I’ve been swamped. Classes actually don’t begin until Monday but there are many, many things teachers have to...

Fiction Techniques #1: Creating Suspense , is no longer free (.99 cents), but Fiction Techniques #2: Characters Wanted , is free now for a f...

On my last blog I mentioned uploading three articles for Kindle in what I'm calling the "Fiction Techniques Series.  The first one ...

Someone new came to our writing group yesterday, although she is someone I’ve known for a number of years. She brought along a copy of Wri...

It seems weird in a way that I woke up this morning with such a lift in my mood of late. Rationally, the change to the new year is a c...

2012 is just about over. I’ll be glad to shake the last dust of it from my feet. After a rough 2010, where we lost my mom, stepfather, and...

It’s been a while since I've had a good alien dream but I had an interesting one last night. Earth suffered two alien invasions in suc...

It seems lately that every time a tragedy occurs in the US, some people want to blame it on the most ridiculous causes -- Gay Marriage, Lack...

As far as I know, this meme began with a writer named Les Edgerton, who I don’t yet know. I was tagged for it by Richard Godwin, the author ...

Final Grading has hit so I won't be visiting blogs for a bit, probably until Saturday or so. I'm sure everyone will survive. In th...

I was noticing something about myself the other day. I read a ten-point article on creative expression and agreed with almost everything t...

In an interview with this dashing reporter, scientist Charles Gramlich, who described himself as only “half-mad,” spoke at length about hi...

  As I usually do at this time of year,  I’m offering some deals on signed, print copies of my books for Christmas and New Year. Excellent...

This just in!  Charles Allen Gramlich is this century’s Nostradamus. Local pseudoscientist, Les Ramli, has spent the entire past decade ex...

Everyone who reads this blog regularly knows that my wife, Lana, was diagnosed with cancer this past March. She went through chemo and radia...