I talked a bit on social media toward the beginning of the year about using this year to dig back into this blog on a more regular basis to help combat the worst elements of social media. And let’s be straight here, I love social media. After a few tries going away from it cold […]
Personally and professionally, my twenties were almost an entirely wasted decade. Wasted time, wasted opportunities, and wasted mental space. My thirties dragged me into adulthood at warp speed, and I spent most of that decade catching up on life, making up for past transgressions, digging myself new holes, and getting myself out of those holes […]
If you’re voting for crime fiction awards in 2020, I’d love for you to consider my short story “Mercenary” from the anthology Murder A-Go-Gos edited by Holly West. I think this is the best short story I have ever written and think it’s themes about race and opioid abuse and masculinity are very timely. Other […]
We were supposed to take a family trip to Great Wolf Lodge to start the new year, but because of my surgery I can’t immerse my leg, which makes a water park quite the waste. Instead, we decided to stay at a local hotel with big suites, a great breakfast buffet, and a nice pool. […]
Instead of setting my reading goal this year for 52 books as I always seem to do, I’m changing it up and aiming for 50 pages a day. This is enough to keep my social media obsession in check while also factoring in long books, short stories, and abandoned books. I have The Brothers Karamazov […]
We all know what I think of Laura Lippman in general, but one thing she’s done in recent years that makes me (almost) forgive her for everything is is encourage people to condense their dreams and goals and fears and hopes for the new year into a one word resolution. I’ve really enjoyed this and […]
I say this every year, but it always bears repeating. I am in no way qualified or interested in making any kind of list of the best books of 2019. But of the books I read this year, these are the ones I enjoyed the most. First, some stats regarding my 2019 reading. I read […]
This was my first Christmas where my long road as a spiritual skeptic came to an end and my new road as an agnostic began to take shape. It made for a weird dissonance as far as celebration goes, but the true spirit of giving and love and peace was alive in those three and […]
Long time readers here will know there has been no love lost between me and my old house. We got a great deal on it as a foreclosure, and we always intended to fix it up quickly and then move on to something bigger, but, well, here we are more than a decade later and […]
Got some amazing writing career-related news today. Can’t share the details yet, but I can share this photo of me celebrating with the fancy booze.
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