I recently learned I will be a grandfather in six months, whereupon I immediately started planning how to win the coveted “World’s...

The following was a micro-short or "flash fiction" piece I wrote some years back. Hope it means something to you. Half a lifetime ago,...

Word docs don't translate here. Please forgive the formatting, and enjoy the read. Chapter One The front window of Aye Candy displayed a...

As always, sorry for the formatting glitches. Word docs don't always translate well here. Happy reading. Callie had always been one to...

This is an article I wrote that first appeared in Mother's Circle back in March (Thank you Leah DeCesare). I'm posting it here today in...

This coming weekend I'll give a eulogy for an old friend and mentor. Bob came into my life when I was flailing around in an angry teen...

I looked back and realized I haven't posted anything of a narrative nature in months...months! Dang near unforgivable, so let's get on it...

The last several weeks have been spent producing and directing a short film called Bee Sting and a Horse Kick. The dark comedy is based...

We’ve all been in a theater, watching trailers for upcoming films and then leaning over to our accomplice…er, companion to whisper,...

My second non-fiction book, Textbooks, Not Targets: Preventing School Shootings in Your Community, went under contract two months ago...

I spoke in a previous post about my method of using screenplay formatting as a skeleton upon which to build full novels. There are dozens...

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of my last chemo and radiation treatment for an aggressive cancer that had taken up residence in...

I was a single parent for much of my sons’ lives. Through their teenage years the three of us lived decidedly as bachelors, even going...

We have a lot of drop-in visitors since moving to Albuquerque because I40 runs right through the middle of town as our friends and family...

My little sister got married last weekend to a guy she met nearly forty years ago at a church camp. They’d both married previously, and...

This go-round I thought I'd plug in a short story I wrote some years back about a fictional small-town sheriff on a traffic stop. Sheriff...

For this post I thought it might be interesting to speak about my writing process a bit. One of the techniques I use when writing prose...

Crosses to Bear is a compilation of the scenes involving Callie, our heroine in Snake Oil on Snow Cones, and her adoptive father, the...

I've gotten feedback from two reliable sources that a pivotal scene in "Badge" should come much earlier in the book. This requires that...

Badge in a Shadowbox is the first novel in a series I'm currently pitching to agents. The hero is Detective Lane Watters, a good cop who ...