The Anti-Blog

  • Good News is Good
    CCTA is back, a.k.a. Climate Change Theatre Action, and my short play, “Selling Baby Prairie,” is among the fifty commissioned works now being performed in this loose, globalized festival between…
  • Is it 2023 already?
    Here’s how I know it’s not 2022: in 2022, we didn’t have Chinese “weather balloons” wandering over North America, causing political havoc in the Beltway and whipping up a comfortable…
  • Good News (and Book Banning)
    Blogging about writing during a pandemic has clearly become a back-burner project, but with this entry, perhaps the mindset of a New Year’s Resolution will set in. Besides, I have…
  • I’m Included: Capital Rep’s Next Act! Festival + CCTA
    As theatre-making lurches back into gear, I’m pleased to announce two upcoming venues where my work will be featured. The first is just around the corner, and comes courtesy of…
  • News of the World: 2021
    2021 opens with some good news in the writing department. First, I have a new story out in the world, through a new U.K. venture, Wyldblood. “The Paint-Over Artist” might…
  • Personal Coronavirus Timeline, Part II
    April 20 – I can’t prove it, but vehicular traffic in Evansville seems to be ticking up. On the other hand, when I glance at the sky, I cannot spot…
  • Personal Coronavirus Timeline
    Dec. 31st (2019) – The CDC first learns of a cluster of odd respiratory cases in Wuhan, China Dec. 31st (2019) – Diane and I attend a screening of Little Women at an AMC…
  • Thoughts for a New Year
    Trouble. Oh, we got trouble. I’ll spare you the capital letters. Why do we have trouble? Because the sabers are rattling. Iran and the U.S. continue to spit and claw,…
  • “Winter is Coming”
    Out back, Baby Prairie is dropping its leaves. What once were flowers are now seed heads. All types, too, from tufty and fluffy to stiff, prickly things that might as…
  • Where to read my yet-to-be published work
    Sandy Denny had it right. Who knows where the time goes? Have I really not updated this site since December 2018? If you’ve visiting my page from a high school,…
  • How to Destroy a Modern City
    One week ago, on Monday, January 26th, our local weather forecasters started spending a lot of energy on a flurry of updates regarding their forecast for Monday night and Tuesday. …
  • Sidewalk Parenting
    My three-year-old still has no directional sense.  When playing hide-and-seek in the house, he asks me to make a noise so he can locate me (since I don’t like hiding…
  • Day of Skullduggery
    The accompanying photo was taken at Cela Kula, or the Skull Tower of Nis, in Serbia.  It is not in any way a representation of my parenting style.  In fact, it’s only…