Have you ever heard of floating? I don’t mean just floating on the wind or floating in the sky or floating on a pillow. I mean floating as in getting into a giant pod of water and epsom salts and just … floating. You may hear it referred to as a sensory deprivation tank. It’s…
Read moreThe Great Television Blackout Experiment
It’s obvious that I don’t really keep up with my own blog. I always find something “better” to do than spend any time on my own site. As a side note to myself, I really need to get on more often if only to clear out the spam messages that pile up behind the scenes….
Read moreIt’s All a Bit Surreal
So, after nearly twenty years of thinking about it and plotting it out in my head, then three-and-a-half months writing the first draft, and finally about 17 months of rewriting, editing, and revising, I uploaded all the necessary files to Ingramspark and set the date of release for my novel, The Fall of ’79, for…
Read moreHear Ye, Hear Ye
I had an interesting experience last night. As a writer, I write, right? That’s what I do. Well, that’s what I mostly do. The other thing we do as writers is edit. That can sometimes be the hardest part of writing. Granted, the very first edit I do is looking for typos and misspellings and…
Read moreGetting Down to Business
I love to write. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved to write. I went to college to become better at it. And I’ve gotten paid to write, albeit technical and instructional writing, but it was nonetheless writing. And I got paid doing something I loved. It doesn’t get much better than that….
Read moreParing Down the Pairing
I woke up the other day and went through my normal routine of getting ready for work. This morning was a little different when I started to get dressed. I grabbed a clean pair of pants from my dresser and the thought struck me, “Why do we call a single item a pair of pants?”…
Read moreGreetings!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. – Macbeth, Act 5, scene 5 That’s the full quote related to the tagline of my site. I chose it because…
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