Hey. You’ll never guess where I’ve parked myself tonight. I’ve joined you from the comfort of my rocking chair in front of the fireplace at Ol’ Creaky Acres–my distinguished summer home. I’m afraid the last of the season is out now, gasping, wondering where all the time went. I am, too. Here’s a confession–so much of the gibberish that I [...]

I spent the weekend in Denver with the wonderful Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. It’s always nice to meet with authors and talk about writing. The only thing that could make conferences better would be if we’d organize into baseball teams and take the field during recess. Anyway, my flight to Madison was scheduled for Monday night. I’d originally built in [...]

As I mentioned a few days ago in a lengthy and rambling post, I’ve skipped town and am now smack dab in the middle of the Rockies. For those of you who have huge reserves of tolerance for my particular brand of nonsense and attention deficit, you may remember that I visited the same area back in February. Back then [...]

Well, it’s Sunday afternoon again and I think we’re all dreading going back to the ol’ tire plant tomorrow, but what we have left of this weather and daylight, we should turn into something wonderful. I move that we all stay indoors and spend our time on the computer. Sigh. What the hell will you ever do with me dear [...]

Happy belated Labor Day to those of you in the United 50. Happy belated Monday to the rest of you. Well, the world keeps spinning and we’re all getting older, and I’m ok with all of that as long as I have you to sit alongside me on the front porch, pointing at cars and making splinters out of rocking [...]