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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 ...

Fiction gives the illusion of reality without literally depicting reality. A simple example of this is seen in dialogue. Real dialogue is m...

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...