Old Enough to Know Better

A few years back, a developer got the notion that there should be a big multi-use construct in the middle of Beaverton. Those of you unf...

In case you missed it, there's a Joe Lansdale novella available, Hyenas , which features Hap and Leonard. I just downloaded it a few...

Reading Preston Lauterbach's first book, The Chitlin' Circuit , a history of the music and artists and venues from whence rock ...

  My son got tickets to an exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, a display of some really cool cars, The Allure of the Automobile. S...

Few things make a grown man look and sound sillier than handing him a baby. Goofy faces, funny noises, goo-goo talk ...

Ahem:  Can I get a drum roll here?  Good, good, bring it up louder ... hold for the dramatic timing ... and ... The Matadors are back...

We have family visiting this week, and I had occasion to collect them at our local airport yesterday. Flight was about fifteen minutes late...

Sorry. I had to put this one up ...

Took the jar of blackberry hooch out to swirl around, and wound up moving it into a different container. The first one was not as tightly...

Come Tuesday–that's day after tomorrow as I write this–9/6/11–Rory Miller and I will be offering an online class at Savvy Authors .  ...

After I wrote the previous post, I went to Costco to pick up my new glasses. On the way home, as I was pulling onto a four-lane road, a wom...

Just finished reading a nearly-there draft of Rory Miller's next book from YMAA,  Force Decisions: A Citizen's Guide, Understanding...

In regard to a recent discussion about grammar, a small bit of business about where one places modifiers, and how sentence construction has...

Long-time readers here will probably recall that I like to read biographies and autobiographies. These are wide-ranging, though mostly of l...

We usually pick enough blackberries each year to make a batch of blackberry liqueur. We got a book on such things several years ago, made d...

Cover by Angel Greenwood Stay tuned to this station ...

My sometimes-editor, sometimes-collaborator, and all the time friend, Larry Segriff, is launching a new venture, Story Portals . This is go...

Got the rings that Coach Sommer sent me installed in the oak tree out back. Nylon ought to last longer than the hemp rope did. So far, al...

... you can remember when the mammoth bones your dog dragged into the cave were still fresh. ... you knew the Missing Link personally. ...

I've gone through the first couple of eManuscripts for the Matador series and put back the italics that had been stripped out. Even tho...