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Slight change in plans, folks. I’ve decided to dedicate this space to promoting my new self-help book, If it’s Not Bleeding, Quitcher Crying, available this… Read More »I Have Altered the Deal

Our living room floor was originally covered in a corpse-gray carpet the exact color of day 16 in solitary confinement. For the past year, the… Read More »One Night in Home Depot

I have been reading Jeff Smith’s BONE with my daughter. She’s five; the subtle interplays of word and image are wasted on her. The dramatic… Read More »Precious Moments

Wow. I had a week lying around here just a couple days ago, but now I can’t find it. If you see it wandering the… Read More »Welcome to the Machine! Have some cake and coffee.

I’d meant to post this earlier this morning, but Comcast decided I needed a break from the Internet. Thanks, Comcast! Thanks for looking out for… Read More »Another Week, Another Thousand

There is a place near the path I walk in the mornings, where people drop off books. It’s a free library of sorts. A sort… Read More »Every Story Has a Story

I heard shouting. It was a block away, muffled, coming from the other side of the street. A woman was running, shouting, carrying a small… Read More »Service with a shout

I promised you entertaining micro-fiction in my previous post. And today, I deliver. That delivery comes in the form of Worth a Thousand, in which… Read More »It Begins with a Thousand Words

As the machinery behind this website slowly groans back into operation, you may be wondering where I’m going with all this. Surely I wouldn’t bother… Read More »A New Mission

On Facebook, there’s this cool app that lets you create your own (simple) quiz and gift apps. I’ve used it a couple times, and was… Read More »Unfortunate Timing