It’s that time again … The NaNoWriMo Blues
Time, that is, for my annual dig at those of you willing to destroy one whole month of the year (and there are only twelve!) in the name of art. … Continue reading
#NeverTrump: Down to the wire 😱
My wife and I mailed in our ballots this week. What a relief. It’s like having an ugly mole removed, and now we can get on with our lives. Obviously … Continue reading
Space oddities
Originally posted on Indie-Scribable:
Many writers, even young ones whose fingers never hovered over the keys of a humming IBM Selectric, insist on putting two spaces after a period in…
Be a-maized by this corn mask
Looking for just the right phony head to wear to a Halloween party? Or, like me, do you just prefer to terrify the trick-or-treaters as you answer the door? I … Continue reading
Susan Toy’s new one is here
Good friend of the blog, Susan Toy, has just listed her new novel in the Bequia Perspectives Series on Amazon and Kobo. It’s called One Woman’s Island, and it’s a … Continue reading
A love song for our anniversary
This is for my wife, who married me twenty-two years ago today. Happened to be a Saturday that year too! When you love someone very much, you must write a … Continue reading
California’s ballot measures blow my mind
This election has us all fit to be tied, and not only because of the cage match of Trump vs. Clinton. I finally got the California ballot pamphlet in the … Continue reading
And the Nobel goes to … Zimmerman?
Are you as staggered as I am that they gave the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan? On the one hand, yes, his lyrics are often actual writing as … Continue reading
That time I sat in with those Mersey boys …
Yes, I’m playing all the guitars on this demo of “Come Together,” and yes, they sound crappy. But I was playing with The Beatles, man, and I was nervous! At … Continue reading
“Kicking the squid,” or, How I learned to spend less time online
For the second time in three days, our power went off yesterday, and we’re not even perched in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. We live in beautiful downtown Cool, Cal., … Continue reading
WHAT THE HELL 