admin | February 23, 2010
Why is it that no matter how far in advance I start packing for a trip, I still end up scrambling around at the last minute, pulling together things I’ve forgotten? I do drive myself crazy like that. This time, for example, I started gathering odds and ends a week ago…actually loaded my suitcase over [...]
admin | February 22, 2010
Something I do when I’m working on an all-consuming long-form writing project is to put off everything I can possibly delay till I’m done. Some things won’t wait, like bills, snow removal, and grocery shopping. But pretty much everything else that I can get away with postponing, I postpone the heck out of. Then, I [...]
admin | February 21, 2010
Whenever I travel, I reach a stage in my get-ready that I call “in the chute.” It starts when I’m just a few days from departure. Like a cowboy bull-rider in a rodeo, I’m in the chute, on the back of the bull…committed to my course of action, almost ready to roll. My nerves are [...]
admin | February 20, 2010
I still have a long way to go till I finish my taxes, but I managed to start them today. It’s always an adventure, with new twists and turns every year. As organized as I am, I still run into delays, detours, and roadblocks. At least the Internet speeds things along by making forms, instructions, [...]
admin | February 19, 2010
Today, I had a ginormous fish sandwich for lunch…one of those sandwiches that’s basically the equivalent of three normal-sized sandwiches that a normal-sized human would eat. Then, for dinner, I had a McDonald’s fish sandwich and fries. I am officially overloaded on fish! The funny thing is, I’m not even a practicing Catholic anymore! I’m [...]
admin | February 18, 2010
Sometimes, all it takes is one person doing one good deed to turn me around. It’s easy sometimes to get caught up in my day-to-day problems, to forget to look beyond my minute-by-minute frustrations and struggles…but then, someone will turn around and do something nice for me, out of the blue, and I’ll remember that [...]
admin | February 17, 2010
I just watched this week’s episode of LOST and loved every minute! The show’s creators and stars have still got it! They’ve got me running in circles, trying to figure out what’s going to happen. They’ve totally mastered the art of giving out just enough information to keep me locked in without giving me enough [...]
admin | February 16, 2010
No matter how hard I try, I can’t make a dent in my to-do list. I’m working hard at the day job, working hard at home, and I just can’t seem to break even, let alone get ahead. That old bugaboo of mine, the dreaded time management, continues to make me crazy. I wonder how [...]
admin | February 14, 2010
Looks like more snow’s headed our way tomorrow. Will it be a storm, or just a shower? I’m hoping Mother Nature takes it easy on us. I’m running out of places to put the stuff, and I know I’m not alone. Local neighborhoods are having to pay excavating crews to haul the snow away just [...]
admin | February 13, 2010
A few days ago, I announced the release of my uncut science fiction/horror story, “The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe,” on Scribd.com, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Well, that story’s now available for the Kindle on Amazon.com! You can find it right here, priced to sell at 99 cents. And the story’s coming [...]
The Fictioneer will be appearing at World Fantasy 36, set for October 28-31, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio.
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