Yeah, I missed yesterday. I’m working from home, desperately trying not to move my rear-wheel drive truck from its current snow berm.  My writing rhythms have been thrown off.  Usually, around two p.m., all our sales guys take off on calls, or they get an early start on happy hour. The workplace goes quiet and […]

I’m such a wordy gasbag, I can’t impress upon you how much I admire the art of storytelling without words. From Mr. Hulot’s Holiday to Closely Watched Trains, it’s amazing how much emotional information can be conveyed in Kabuki pantomime. Of course, the zeitgeist confluence of the art form are the sappy, anthropomorphic Clydesdale commercials […]

First of all, if you are here today because of a special announcement I promised, that announcement is on ice. For the moment (I hope). I apologize. The gears behind the scenes are turning slower than I’d like. The post is saved and ready to go if I get the green light. I start with […]

My reading load has dropped off the detectable spectrum of scientifically calibrated instrumentation. In the past three years, I’ve read fewer than six novels. I have, however been writing, and I purposely don’t read while I write. When I do read, my pattern generally involves trying to read something “good” alternating with a “junk novel.” […]

Ehn. I’m back. I was going to let blogging slide one more day, but the sooner I commit to a return blog, the sooner I get back up in the saddle. Time to regain my blog mojo. We had a good Christmas in Myrtle Beach. I’d never been there before. It’s very much a tourist […]