He was upset and she knew it. Life was slow and boring and he couldn’t take it anymore. She never really knew what to say to him when he was like this, so she stopped herself before speaking. Maybe he would snap out of it. Maybe he would smile and let the so-called problems roll […]
Early morning, hot coffee, flipping through a food magazine and I noted some food-porn pictures of glorious edible artwork served at some of the nation’s best restaurants. Really, looked like the kind of stuff that people always say, “it looks too good to eat.” I’d be afraid to eat some of them, afraid in the […]
The Zumba girls were dancing badly to The Pretenders‘ “Precious.” Terrible. No sense of rhythm. Wait a minute. “Precious” was blasting through my headphones. Blasting through my headphones as I worked on the elliptical machine. It was the only machine available and I felt funny taking it since it was the closest to the classroom […]
These days, I feel both proud of and appalled by the state of journalism, especially when we consider such subjects as politics, energy, economics and even sports. It seems that journalism is skewed, or at least suspect of being too subjective and driven by agenda. In all fairness, there are plenty of outlets that offer […]
Are those of us who write — with the purpose of being published and read by strangers — out of our minds? I ask this of myself many times, since writing, fiction or not, is hard enough. Unless you’re already under contract, your the one who gets to decide when the project is ready for […]
Okay, some of you have been reading my food blogs, done mostly to exercise my blogging skills as well as just have a little fun. Some of you are in this space for the first time. As the comedy troupe, Monty Python, once dubbed a film: And now for something completely different… Sometimes, I write […]
