RAZORED ZEN

This will probably be my last post about music for a while. Below are some of my favorite rock songs by bands that really only had one song...

When I started putting together my list of top ten favorite hard rock songs I ran into a problem. I had a lot more than ten. However, I foun...

Picking numbers 6 through 10 of my favorite hard rock songs proved very difficult. So, I ended up making a further division of favorites. B...

Here are the first five songs from my favorite Hard Rock list. Certainly there are many other good songs that might fall into my top five un...

Here are metal songs 6 through 10 for me. Ty pointed out that his list would change with his mood and that is true of me as well. This is m...

I have  discussions on occasion with folks about what constitutes the difference between Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. I love both genres, but...

            I just realized that Amazon has a Charles Allen Gramlich Author Page, and a Charles Gramlich Author page. The Charles Allen Gr...

The fifth book in the Talera series, Gods of Talera , is now underway. This is a direct sequel to Wraith of Talera , which I wrote last yea...

Oh, the things we teachers sometimes say. Without intent. I was talking about evolutionary concepts in my comparative psychology class the ...

I’ve talked about my dreams quite a bit here, and about how I’ve used scenes and imagery from them in a lot of stories.  I’ve said that man...

  Actors sometime talk about “inhabiting” a character. As near as I can tell, they mean that they try to get inside the skin of the charact...

When Wraith of Talera is published, sometime this year, I hope, it will contain a fairly extensive glossary of Taleran places, races, mytho...

Everyone knows the phrase: "It was a dark and stormy night." Those of us who are writers often get a little chuckle out of it. But...

On Saturday, January 25 th , I’ll be giving a presentation on generating suspense in fiction at the Biloxi Library from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Th...

Faculty meetings yesterday. That makes for an official first day of school for us teachers. Today and tomorrow mark registration and classes...

Although I have some big projects coming up soon that will prevent me from finishing Gods of Talera, the sequel to Wraith of Talera, I'v...

Only a few more days of break and then back to school on January 8. I’m already working on syllabi, of course, and hope to have them done b...

Like some novels I’ve read, 2013 started out pretty good, sagged seriously in the middle, then picked up toward the end. Not the greatest y...

For the first time ever, I kept records of how many words I wrote professionally this year. This is not counting blog materials, facebook w...

Here's the last installment of Books that have Stayed with Me: 9. Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat. I was assigned to read this book...