As any of my long time readers can attest, my output as of late has increased substantially. Alone used to consist of one post a week, but lately it has climbed to the point of five or six a week. Part of […]
For the last month or so I have been editing and re-writing a story I had written last month. I wrote it with the intention of submitting it for publication. Tonight I finished my last re-write. I went to the publication’s website […]
So this morning I get up and head downstairs. Coffee and raisin bran round out my wake up routine before I sit down to do some writing. I work at it for about 30 minutes then I start to feel pain shooting […]
This month has been a rough one writing wise. I am behind my goal curve and though I have time to make up the difference I have a hard time imagining my doing so. I think I’m a little burned out from […]
Ten years ago my wife gave birth to my little girl. The labor had been long and uncomfortable for my wife and ended in a C-Section ultimately. I was in the operating room holding stroking my wife’s hair and speaking words of […]
It is July 5th. Six years ago my youngest son Connor was born. We had planned a C-Section for this day, but sitting in the fields watching the fireworks in Lebanon, Oregon we knew that he was coming on the 5th whether […]
I tried to write something witty today…and failed. I tried to write something deep and meaningful…and failed. I looked at the screen and felt crushed by my inability to put more than a handful of words together. I want to say something, […]
I wish I could find a way to express my gratitude for Roy Norman Thompson. He is the father of my wife and the grandfather to my children. I have known Roy for about thirteen years now. I say I know him […]
Image via Wikipedia In December of 1776 Thomas Paine once wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He was talking about the American Revolution and he spoke about how it was important for the colonists to join the revolution, to fix […]
Last week I talked about how my writing had been rejuvenated and that I had made some changes in the way I approached my writing. That sense of progress and accomplishment is still with me though I think it has been tempered […]