Fiction, Ramblings, ruminations, Shuffled Off

Ten Years of Shuffled Off: A Ghosts Memoir

Shuffled Off was my first novel. Every novel, every story, feels like something of ...

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Ramblings

Living in Carterville and Time Traveling

2020 has been a difficult and unusual year. You all are living through it ...

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Fiction, Ramblings, writing

Vegas, Baby!

In early March, I spent a week in Las Vegas at a workshop all ...

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passions, Ramblings, runwrite, writing

Why I Quit Writing (Almost, Kinda, Sorta)

While this blog is focused on my recent experience with writing, the principles apply ...

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Ramblings, runwrite

New Passions at Any Age

See those smiles. That’s my wife, Aleia, and I after running our very first ...

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Ramblings, Story, writing

Making Art With Your Friends

Writers are strange. Their imagined worlds are often so compelling that the “real” world ...

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flagstaff, General, Ramblings

Wayne’s Legacy

Ten years ago today, my dear friend Wayne died. Wayne was young (just shy ...

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Ramblings

What is Enough?

Live is busy, isn’t it? Not just a little either–it seems to demand more ...

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