When I first moved to the Vancouver area, I liked to explore the maze of trails that began right outside my door. Witnessing the salmon spaw...

I have a friend - OK, he's a psychiatrist and probably doesn't know anything - who keeps asking me questions about the writing biz...

Inspired by a friend of mine, who enjoys writing doggerel, here's some catter el about an old friend who passed at the grand age of 17. ...

If this guy looks freaky enough to scare the Elephant Man, that's because he is. He represents one of the biggest genetic train wrec...

Can there be anything more idyllic, more innocent, more knowing than a three-year-old girl? How about a three-year-old who is somehow, myste...

Heigh-ho! It took me 24 hours, but I just saw an example of. . . irony. Here in my very own blog. The theme of it is supposed to be boldnes...

For what I am about to say, may I be truly penitent. But I just have to get this out of me. So many well-worn phrases represent philosophies...

If this photo seems a little misty, a little unreal, well, that's 'coz it is. It is a chunk of my history, still bleeding and sore. ...

Jesus, I was happy to find this: a whole site about "Latin Phrases in Common Usage in English". Not Latin as in Latino, i.e. Desi ...

The Tyranny of God's Will: Why I Quit AA The other day I was lurking around in the children’s section of my favorite bookst...

Let us now praise famous men. Famous men like Jon Hamm. I don't care if he has a silly name. Where has he been all my life? Jon Hamm is...

OK, was everything really brown then? Like it is right here? I don't remember it being brown, but then, I was sitting in the middle of ...

In case you've been wondering where I've been over the past few days (for I am sure my hordes of readers will be worried about me), ...

Sometimes I'm like, I mean. I'm like, and he's like, and I'm. An icon, I mean. Iconic. There. Now that I've got( ten ) t...