Here’s hoping 2015 is better
I’m not going to lie to you: 2014 sucked. Everybody got sick or hurt at least once, and the world’s a train wreck. On a personal level I lost my first writing job after twenty-three […]
I’m not going to lie to you: 2014 sucked. Everybody got sick or hurt at least once, and the world’s a train wreck. On a personal level I lost my first writing job after twenty-three […]
I recently took my writing career in a new direction, which is another way of saying I got “downsized” out of my job. Now I’m making a monthly appearance in a local shopping guide that’s […]
With mixed feelings I say goodbye to my first writing home, in the same week my column appears for the first time in Kendallville Mall. I’m going from a weekly to a monthly, but otherwise […]
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I made a promise that I would attempt to go back to humor when I wrote my September 11th column. The reasoning: This is a humor column. Still, it’s […]
Okay, so this YA “Girl Scout” novella I’ve been working on is almost ready to go, and it has no Girl Scouts in it. (That’s for legal purposes. This organization is my own invention, and […]
In this lesson, I will cover whatever comes to my mind first. This could be just as surprising to me as to you. For f***k sake, DON’T TRY TO ANALYZE HUMOR! Nothing kills humor faster […]
Not long ago I said I wouldn’t give a five-star review unless a bookmark came out and fed me chocolate while I was reading. Thanks to Barry Parham, I’ve gained five pounds and have chocolate […]
To the Literary Set, humor writers are one step above greeting card poets in the literature hierarchy. We are categorized as next-to-lowest of the low, among the dregs of the literary world. I’m not making […]