Its dark and cold and raining like stink. Has been all day. Got very wet at football practice, despite my attempts at layering. When I...

Lots of reading and writing this week. Most of the writing is the ‘get your book ready for publication’ kind. The blurb, a one or two...

Self publishing your writing is like starting a small business. And the product is you. Oh, the advice comes like a hurricane. Leave the...

Here’s an article with some advice I wish I had when I was younger. It feels at times these perspectives are so ingrained that even being...

Summer is the time for reading more than any other. I have six books on my bedside table. I have some authors I would like to recommend....

We are staying in a farmhouse about 100 km north of Kingston, Ontario for a week. It rained continuously for three straight days to...

Write hard, even when you don't feel it. Its summer so there is more time. No excuses. Before we get to that however, here is a picture...

In the annals of first world problems, getting used to being on vacation ranks right up there. But as the years pass it gets harder and...

Last night was our year end staff party. Five of our number are retiring this year, including a friend who was hired the same year as me....

Finishing up the first edit of my second novel. No title I am comfortable with yet. It is a sequel to my first. My editor, whom I hired...

It has become apparent to me that if I let my desire to be a writer (meaning a writer who earns a more than an insignificant amount of...

I'm coaching high school baseball at the moment. A short intense season and playoffs. We usually have a lot of pretty good players where...

Did you know that humans aren't kinder, gentler and more generous when they are younger? (As in, children.) The idea that an unspoiled...

I walked outside my workplace this morning, around 10 am. I wanted to know if the old key I had would unlock box the bases are in at the...

I got asked if I was over 60 at a hockey game this week. First time for me. The asker was very young and they are very bad at judging...

I saw the phrase 'third winter' on a web post as one of the eleven Canadian seasons. (Its right before 'mud season'.) We are in it right...

I'm going to try and write a weekly blog post. There is however, some doubt in my mind that I have enough original 'non-fiction' things...