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Of the many random things I enjoy about my occasional forays back onto the mainland, few rise as high in the rankings as road trips. Take someone like Podge and they would rather eat gruel three meals a day for a week than endure sitting in a car for any length of...

This past week being 4th of July, few things in this world say summertime more than grilling. As such allow me to take a quick moment to share a most tragic tale from my own holiday festivities and over a couple of charts to ensure a similar fate never befalls...

 If you’ll indulge me for a few moments here, I would like to address a question that several author friends have passed my way in the last few days. After typing my response once, then copy-and-pasting it a few more times, I thought it better to simply post my...

In the last dozen years, I have been fortunate enough to spend the 4th in nine different cities. Never was it explicitly planned that way, I just happened to look up, be living/visiting some place new, and decide I needed to see some fireworks. With tomorrow being the...

One of the truest idioms I have ever encountered regarding the creative process is the phrase “art inspires other art.” I’m not sure who originally coined this expression or even how specific they were being in saying it - whether they meant art in the traditional...

This is an actual account as relayed to paramedics at a chili cook-off in New Mexico."Recently, I was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cook-off. The original person called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge's table,...

This is an article taken from Outdoor, written by Charles Bethea, which can be found here.“Pass the rock,” says Kyle Korver. The six-foot-seven Atlanta Hawks guard is arguably the best shooter in the NBA, so this should be funny, given the circumstances. See, we’re...

(This time I’m skipping right over the apologies for delays in posting, if that’s okay w/ everybody. Suffice it to say it had something to do w/ my own personal Cerberus of the end of our legislative session, working on a sequel to the upcoming Cold Fire, and...

I know I am now woefully behind on posting here, as the combination of legislative session, three new releases in the next eight weeks, and a wonky home computer connection that has now ate my last two attempts have all combined to force this delay. I fully realize in...

Here is a chapter from an upcoming work that is currently in the editing process. I wont offer any commentary on it besides to say the premise is pretty straight forward and I hope you enjoy it! Chapter Two      The flashing lights of his car refracted off the front...

There are few things in life that are completely unavoidable. We’ve all heard the terrible cliché about death and taxes, but to that list I would also add red lights when you’re in a hurry, screaming children on a redeye flight, baseball season lasting too damn long,...

Some time again I made a rank order posting of the various people that one might encounter while in the sauna/steam room at the gym. Amongst those offenders listed was the always obvious, never subtle Too Much Cologne Guy.....Yeah.For those of you fortunate enough to...