I should write something for Martin Luther King Day. Something introspective and profound. Something that measures up to the man. But I’ve done that before. In both word and deed. I don’t know what to do now. MLK was THE most pivotal figure in my life, the truest hero I Read more…
CAUTION: This post contains significant amounts of cursing, without those sorry little @$#%! marks to hide what I really want to say. If this is an issue, come back on Friday: I should be in a decidedly better mood. You’ve been warned. I’m going to add a new award series Read more…
It’s the end of the year, time for New Year’s resolutions, right? Wrong. Resolutions suck. These are things we resolve to do. There’s no accountability, no measurement, no plan for achievement. Just those nebulous, pie-in-the-sky things we want to do or see different in our lives. I need something more Read more…
About 36 hours ago, I gave up on Christmas. I feel like the Christmas spirit skipped my house this year. I tried to force Christmas by pulling my family together. I got a plane ticket to get my mother to come out to spend Christmas with us but, in the Read more…
Someone called me a Satanist recently. He’d read my book and was making a joke in passing. I know him, I love him—wasn’t a big deal. But it did get me thinking: how do I justify writing a novel where Lucifer—the Devil—is my protagonist? And who the hell would want Read more…
Check out my Christmas memory on Mysti Parker’s Unwritten blog. It’s my first guest post! http://mystiparker.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-memory-with-author.html
I first met them in a lounge on the top floor of the BP building in downtown Cleveland about 10 years ago. It was a unique place, a penthouse slash pool hall slash men’s lodge. A wide, open space, dimly lit, bound by floor-to-ceiling windows. They called it the Upper Read more…
I live in Seattle. It’s a place that, even now, has a frontier-like quality. If you were awake in 8th grade history, you know that it is the final destination of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the western edge of the Louisiana Purchase. If you’ve visited there (during the summer Read more…
I’ve never done anything for a veteran before. Not intentionally. Maybe let a serviceman or woman cut in line at the airport, whispered a “thank you” under my breath, gave up the window seat on a flight. But really nothing of value. Nothing worth noting. Until this Tuesday. I was Read more…
Progeny by Shawn Hopkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars The first 4 verses of Genesis 6 introduce the rationale for God’s flooding of the earth: angels—the sons of God—were making wives out of the daughters of men. And having children with them. “There were giants in the earth in Read more…