When I began Wabi Sabi, I had just finished participating in the November NaNoWriMo. I loved the creative challenge, of course. The story I had written in November I wrote very quickly. After all, the NaNoWriMo program goes on for 30 days, the month of November. I’ve written first draftsContinue Reading
I love road stories. “Kneller’s Happy Campers” always comes to mind first. Of course I still hold The Grapes of Wrath in high regard. On the Road seems to be the obvious one. If it is, then tell me do the prettiest girls in the world really come Des Moines?Continue Reading
I first met Dani and Ryan in the fall of 2014 right when I moved to Longmont, Colorado and started working a restaurant where they both worked. I wouldn’t say that the three of us hit it off instantly, because it’s difficult, if not impossible, to hit it off withContinue Reading
I blamed all of my worries and woes, all of my future disasters and successes on one moment. The moment was sometime in September 1998. If age isn’t a beautiful thing, I don’t know what is, after all, you can have perspective with time and time equals age. This oneContinue Reading
I have never liked eating in restaurants. I don’t care for the way restaurants smell and I’ve never really cared for the way restaurant food tastes. I’ve never cared for servers, truth be told, they somewhat freak me out. The real dichotomy in this declaration is that I’ve spent mostContinue Reading
By the spring of 2006, I was well into my retirement. I had retired from smoking weed some time during the year prior. The year prior, sometime, in April I think, I was in Corpus Christi, Texas, JP 2 had just died and I was with my ex-wife and aContinue Reading
I haven’t seen the “Kill your television” bumper sticker/t-shirt in a long time. I haven’t seen the “Theater is life, film is art, TV is furniture” in a long time either. Perhaps TV is passe. Who knows? The two things I do know are that there are more TVs thanContinue Reading
For those of you who know me, either personally, or from my work, you know how important location or setting is to my fiction. It is so important to me that when I begin writing something, I have to ask myself, “Where?” before anything else. I’ve been thinking about theContinue Reading
I work with a fella who claims to have worked in 47 restaurants. I mean, what? Really? Wow! You’d think that one might get the idea after half of that amount of restaurant gigs, that maybe, it would be time to do something else. I work a restaurant job. IContinue Reading
Surprisingly, I do not write about fire. I don’t write about starting fires, running from fires, the fear or joy that fires bring. Truth is, there has been so much fire in my life, it is amazing that I have not tried to exorcise it from my mind. California wasContinue Reading