RAZORED ZEN

So here's the most interesting dream I’ve had in a while. I was at an outdoor seminar with fellow psychology faculty members. As we wer...

I had a somewhat surreal, but very pleasant, experience last night. I was invited to a pulp fiction reading group meeting at St. Joseph...

Here's the second half of that quiz I gave my writing students. Sorry the spacing isn't quite right. Not sure why but probably due t...

I give my students in the Writing in Psychology class a lot of quizzes. They work as motivators and also to keep information fresh in their...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was published in 1906. It was set in Chicago and was Sinclair’s sixth novel, if I’m reading my history ri...

A very fine man has left us. Ron Scheer has died. It is at times like this that I realize how truly inadequate words are. But they are the t...

Well, Adventures of an Arkansawyer is finally out in ebook. You can save about $5 on it if you prefer electronic format over print. Th...

I started my journal as a way of keeping up with the work I was doing toward advancing my writing goals. I used it as a motivator and it wo...

I tried off and on to keep a journal for years before I finally started one that I was able to keep going. My original journal concept was ...

Been a very rough month at work. Grading, mentoring students, and committee work. I'm also teaching the Writing in Psychology class, whi...

Been several weeks since I've had time to do any of my own writing. After my Sunday off, the work piled on again until I was barely keep...

I finally had a day off on Sunday. Everything that absolutely had to be done was done. It's been almost three weeks since I had more tha...

Over the past week, I’ve been talking a lot to my nonfiction writing class about “wordiness,” and about the need to make every word count. ...

I know that many of you tend to read several books at once. I do as well. I tend to do 3: 1 at work during lunch hour, and 2 at home. I'...

I've been very fortunate to get many really good reviews on my work. I greatly appreciate them. It's what keeps me going through the...

I haven't been around to visit blogs for several days, and when I stopped into my feed this morning I had close to 400 posts to look at....

  Resonance Dark & Light , by Bruce Boston. From Eldritch Press, 2015.  89 pages. Should we call Bruce Boston the hardest working m...

Between 1975 and 1976, John Cleve wrote four books in “The Crusader” series, about a young man from Cyprus who saves Richard the Lionheart’...

On occasion I will post about some of the things that happen in this world that I just don’t understand.  Here are some of my latest, or co...

Here is a snippet of what I've been working on lately. This is a novella project entitled "The Razored Land," and it's fin...