There was an essay contest on the theme of “What is home?” and though I didn’t win, I did end up on the short list. So, here’s what I wrote. A little slice of autobiographic essay. Home is Dinner Every Night Home is a place that repulses. I’m walking down Read more
How is it the year 2025?? I feel like we’re moving past “jet pack” and into “If man is still alive…” Anyway, I have a book coming out in July. Galactic Hellcats 2: Andrei and the Hellcats! So I am planning on doing a LOT of events as I spread Read more
I wonder if all my focus on what I’m doing as a writer means, well, that in ten years or so I’ll look back and forget anything I did that wasn’t writing? So here are some things that happened this year that have nothing to do with being an author. Read more
Our society doesn’t want us to be content. We are bombarded, daily, with aspirational videos of how clear our skin could be, how thin our thighs, how glittering our swimming pool with the ocean view over it… all aimed at getting us to spend money on thigh-cream, gym memberships, and Read more
Some time ago, (judging by photo dates, November 2022) I decided to put pockets on some of my clothes that didn’t have pockets. Let’s face it, it’s all for my cell phone. We now live in a world where you have this thing you are expected to carry 24/7. Also, Read more
I’m currently reading Ray Bradbury’s collected correspondence. In between wishing the compiler got more of his responses from Leigh Brackett (she’s hilarious!) and sobbing messy tears over the very idea of a literary agent for short stories, I found this little gem: … Last weekend, in a great burst of Read more
I want to write socially conscious science fiction. To quote television writer and producer Rod Serling, “The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience, he must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism, and he Read more