Thirty-one days into 2018 and my New Year's resolution of writing a blog entry weekly remains intact. My two other resolutions of exercising more and eating fewer donuts have gone completely awry. Somehow I've actually ended up doing the opposite: exercising less and eating more donuts. How does that happen? Oh yeah, Dunkin' Donuts keeps introducing new …
Month: January 2018
The Most-Read Books of 2017
One of the most encouraging parts of joining the blogosphere is seeing the number of people who still love to read books. You hear all the time how no one ever reads anymore because of cell phones, the Internet, Netflix, and video games. But when you enter the blogosphere, you witness a whole world of …
Enter the Drabble
A drabble is a 100-word short story with a beginning, middle, and end. I write drabbles mostly as exercises, hoping to spark longer, more interesting stories. However, there is a market for drabbles. In fact, my first published piece of fiction was a drabble titled "Garden, Bloody Garden" in an anthology from DailyNightmare.com called "22 …
Life is horror and fantasy … and dreams
"Life is horror and fantasy, not necessarily in that order." When I was thinking of a defining quote for my website blog, I considered a number of quotes from my favorite horror and fantasy authors. My favorite quote of all time is Gandalf the Grey saying, "All we have to decide is what to do …