Ghost Mountain – Excerpt
Have you ever moved? Have you ever had an encounter you just can’t rationally explain away? Then you know exactly…
How Do You Develop and Differentiate Your Characters?
Usually I try to do scenes with only two characters since it’s easy to differentiate between two characters, but in…
Patio Edging: Summer 2012
Well, nowadays the big activity is reclaiming the portion of the patio taken over by plants and ants. I don't know…
Intro: Grief: The Great Yearning
"Grief: The Great Yearning", the book about my first year of grief has finally been published. I wrote this article…
Intro: To Love The Rose: Is Washington Stoned?
To many successful baby-boomers this is a walk down memory lane. Generations X and Y will find parallels to their…
Angular Trifecta 34: Janette vs. Burdlit
"It looks like all the elevators in this sector are out of commission," the soldier with the slate computer sighed…
Fraud in America
Generation after generation the government doesn't see through the fruad regarding health care and Medicare, who is…
Elgin Theatre and Winter Garden Centre
Elgin Theatre and Winter Garden Centre
The Elgin Theatre opened on December 15, 1913. Months later, on February…
Ann Romney – MS Part Two
During recent interviews it has been focused on the negative side of MS instead of the positive. With 400,000…
What is The Easiest Part of the Writing Process?
The Easiest Part of the Writing Process
The easiest aspect of writing is editing. The words are all there,…
Revisiting Charlton Heston
Revisiting Charlton Heston
James Holmes, age twenty-four, is accused of opening fire in a suburban Denver movie…
Writing Naked
Writing is akin to being naked in the street baring yourself to the world. This paraphrases the thought expressed…
Lost in the Farmyard
Every Sunday my Father wanted to take rides out into the country to get lost on some dirt road - I began to enjoy…
The Bell Curve of Selling Books
The Bell Curve of Selling Books
Much has been written about the "Bell Curve" as it applies to human behavior…
From Victim to Victory – Excerpt
Early on a Saturday morning, Regina Lane drove to her parking space in downtown Winston-Salem, got out of her car,…