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What’s the biggest, most important invention/discovery/development ever in your lifetime?  Of everything that’s happened since you were born, what do you feel has been the most significant for mankind and […]

Back in high school and even junior high and probably elementary school, we used to have to write “themes.”  Remember those?  I used to hate those damn things.  Many times they […]

Last week I posted my thoughts and comments about the Bubonicon 44 convention in Albuquerque the last full weekend of August, 2012.  I attended a number of author presentations, and in one presentations, I […]

Well, Bubonicon 44 has come and gone.  That’s the local (Albuquerque area) convention of fans and authors of science fiction that took place August 24-26, 2012.  Always lots of fun, […]

Yesterday I spent about a half an hour backing up my writing.  Not all of it actually, just the stories and other things that I’ve worked on for the past […]

I’ve been sending out short stories over the past several months to those literary magazines which I thought might be likely to publish one of my stories.  This has required that I read two things […]

I’m a scientist by training, and perhaps even by inclination.  I’ve always liked reading true-life stories, stories about things that actually happened.  Growing up, I read some fiction, but most […]

I was watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow a few days ago and an interesting phenomenon occurred to me.  The things that people bring to the Roadshow to be appraised […]

I’ve heard over the past few weeks about a new wrinkle in publishing: books in which the ink disappears in a few weeks or months after you start reading.  That’s […]

Back on September 27, 2011, I blogged about the TV sit-com, The Big Bang Theory.  I suggested I might continue to watch it in reruns, but left the promise open.  […]

I heard a very interesting talk the other day at one of the regular meetings of SouthWest Writers.  The talk was given by Johnny D. Boggs, an accomplished western writer […]

Well, they say that rules are made to be broken.  Actually, rules are made to be followed and broken only at your own (and possibly someone else’s) risk.  This is […]