‘Lo all. Here at Whiny Scotsman Enterprises, we’re powering down the antenna for a while. The missus and I are trying our toes at a beach Christmas this year. The concept is very un-us, but here’s to changing things up once in a while and seeing what happens. We were offered a rather steep discount […]

First Order of Business, another chapter in the book of THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. My mother is a cynic and a defeatist. I come by it honestly. She’s the first one to write off odd coincidences or a single instance of bad luck as our family birthright. A curse. A congenital deformity for which there is […]

I have a friend who falls in love a lot. It follows that she must also fall out of love a lot. When she’s in love, there is no one more in love with being in love than she. It’s kind of beautiful. It’s also kind of exhausting for all concerned. But every time she […]

At three p.m. today, I received an email from one of the agents who has my full manuscript.  The email asked when I was available to talk to her via phone, and asked for a confirmation phone number to reach me at. This is IT. This is IT. This is IT! Agents don’t call you […]

Doddering GRANDMA, from the movie Parenthood: “You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up! Down! Up! Down! Oh, what a ride! “I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so […]