Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

In the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project , a massive supercomputer is put in charge of all of America’s nuclear missiles.  I remember the ...

I’m doing a guest blog  Use All Five Senses   over at Brooke R. Busse’s site, Paper Mountain.  These are h ints on making writing more vivid...

I have never read The Hunger Games , so this review is based on the movie.  Every year, each district must randomly select one teenage fema...

Yes, I’m very late on this.  I don’t like being beaten by the Oscars for timeliness.  That said, here are my two best non-fiction reads of l...

I’ll return to my idea of photographing pages shortly.  But we’ll interrupt that blog theme for some breaking news:  A murderer was convict...

One reason I’ve been hesitant to mainly use my Kindle for buying new books is I’ve sometimes had to convey important information from a boo...

I’ve avoided looking up videos of the Japanese tsunami until today.  An astounding video has come to light, shot by a man who floated around...

Super-agent Kristin Nelson is delivering the bad news on the demise of Dorchester, the once mighty publishing company.  See her blog .  I t...

. . . so I get home, looking forward to an evening of reading and writing, when I see a truck with hoses going up to the units above mine.  ...