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The gradepocalypse is about to begin again. We have six class periods left before finals start, but, unfortunately, I have a lot of senior...

I’ve read a lot in the past few years about terraforming Mars, terraforming Venus. I’ve even been reading about how we might one day have to...

I hear it fairly often: unless there is character development in a story or book then the writer hasn't done his or her job. I don't...

I've been very pleased to see that Under the Ember Sta r has been getting some really good reviews. The latest comes from Chris La Tr...

I used to post every day, then every other day, then about every third day. Now it seems lucky if I get a post in a week. It's not that ...

As I hoped, I was able to put the finishing touches on my collection called Micro Weird: Tiny Tales of the Strange over spring break. It ...

I’ve been good for as long as I could. I’ve got so many unread books around my house, literally a couple of thousand, that I’ve been tryin...

I'm considering this the first day of our Easter vacation. I'm off next week from school. We have a few plans. I'm going up to s...

Sometime in the next few weeks I'm going to self publish a collection of my flash fiction stories under the title MicroWeird: Tiny Tales...

It never ceases to fascinate me how differently people can view the same book. I just finished a book entitled: Morigu: The Dead , by Mark...

This post provides the reasons why I’ve come to dislike teaching my writing class, a class I originally thought I would adore. First, ...

I love writing. I love talking about writing. I love telling people what I think about writing, and what I know and what I “feel” is true....

Here’s a paragraph from a book I’m currently reading: “Martinez had been standing under somber skies for what seemed hours. He wore pa...

Massive quantities of grading struck last night and this morning. (23 term papers and 32 essays.) You might say I'm having a gradepocaly...

I'm pretty irritated at myself these past couple of weeks. I was off three work days for Mardi Gras and wrote virtually nothing. I waste...

Although we have objective ways of measuring time with clocks, the human experience of time is very subjective. We’ve all had days where th...

Google Reader is acting up this morning. It first showed me 223 posts from friends, but as I looked these were almost all ones I'd seen ...

I feel like I'm skirting the edge of Twilight Zone territory. On Wednesday evening, a truck caught fire on the Causeway bridge and then ...

Everything was going the Ravens’ way until the lights went out in the Super Bowl.  When the lights came back on, the 49ers came back with a ...