Jan 17, 2016
Free books, Massachusetts musicians, and SNOW!
Author Jeremy Jackson says it best in his novel Life at These Speeds: "Only on paper is February the shortest month. Something in the...
Dec 31, 2015
Remembering Baxter
It was two years ago today that I had to say goodbye to the best dog I've ever known. Most knew him simply as Baxter, but more often than...
Nov 27, 2015
Feed the birds?
I've been on a short story-writing kick. The one that I'm posting today is for my buddy, Nicoleo, who met me in the parking lot the other...
Nov 19, 2015
Battlefield Goings-On... at Night
Recently, my pup Agatha Wags and I took a long walk on the battlefield. While there, we spotted a soldier atop a very high pillar. I...
Nov 10, 2015
Now THAT was a weekend!
I really am lucky to know as many awesome folks as I do... and I'm even luckier because I got to see so many of them in a single weekend!...
Nov 4, 2015
Free Signatures!
If you purchased a copy of Just Whistle a while back and have been waiting for the perfect moment to have it signed, that perfect moment...
Oct 5, 2015
The Oxford Comma: what's your opinion?
The Oxford comma, sometimes known as the serial comma or the Harvard comma, is the comma that appears directly before a coordinating...
Sep 17, 2015
Goodreads offers good reads.
Lately, I've been spending a lot of time on Goodreads. Who ever thought that talking about books and reading about books that I want to...
Aug 8, 2015
A new book in the works?
It seems that every August, toward the end of summer, I find myself inspired to begin another novel. The timing is never especially...