I've been on a bit of a Mark Twain kick ever since I saw a superb PBS documentary about his life a few months ago. I got a copy of the D...

Do I seem obsessed with horses? Oh dear. Somehow or other, in my later years, it has come back stronger than ever. I wonder why this is. It ...

Well, almost. When a non-proficient computerphobe like me has to retrieve a file that contains an entire novel (several years' worth o...

There are few things more horrific in a writer's life than discovering that a manuscript is gone. I mean, just GONE. Not there. Not wher...

I don't like odd numbers, and I like even less the way people have been saying dates since the year 2000 (and did anyone ever say "...

Nature or God saw fit to erase my last post. Since I'm too thick-headed to get the message, I'll try again. For New Years, I wanted ...

http://www.myhorse.ca/horseoftheweek/index.htm Let us hope this link works for you. These are the most astonishingly beautiful horse photos ...

Y'know, cowpokes, just about the last thang I wanna do right now is write a movie review. So I won't, even though I like...

Noel!

Below is an actual email, from an actual editor in a publishing house. A couple posts back, I went on a rant about the habit of some publi...

This angel has lowered her head in grief because she could not be there to save someone. She could not be there to save a little girl, four ...

You've got to ask yourself why you do this. Why, when it's already happened two or three times. It goes like this. After having publ...

Below is a reprint of a piece I wrote in 2005. I could not believe it was that long ago: I thought it was maybe a couple of years. I lost a ...

One of my fave-fave ads. Took me 2 years to find it.

Don't know what it is, but me likes. Used in an ad for, I think, Sear's, a few years back. Don't say there's no original Xma...

A while ago I discovered, to my utter dismay, that the domain name for my web site had been stolen by a Japanese shoe company. (No, I'm ...

OK, I don't exactly expect you to read all this stuff. Most movies have little inconsistencies that only the most OCD-infested person wo...

This thing comes on every year and I get caught up in it, even worse than Taxi Driver . And I forget every year that it's the longest, m...

At this festive time of year, when our brains all turn to mush, it's nice to reflect on Christmases past. Isn't it? No? OK, but I...

I don't think I've laughed like this in years. Guess I have a primitive sense of humour.

That last post left, shall I say, a bad taste in my mouth. But I couldn't help it. I was watching a National Geographic special (God kno...