Cold day in he– errr, Alaska

We seem to have got off to a record making year here in Alaska.

First we had the worst storm that the west coast of Alaska has seen in 40 years. Hurricane force winds and blizzard conditions buffeted the coastal towns along the west coast of Alaska. Then that cold seemed to move inland. At [...]

Is it true that even bad press is good?

If you are a business owner, then the last thing you want to see is a negative review of your business. It feels terrible. Trust me, I know, I am a writer.

It seems to me that writers take criticism better than many others. Perhaps we just have thicker skins? Or maybe we have been [...]

Criticize my writing all you want, but watch what you say about my mom!

I just realized that I have been spending far too long this evening / morning reading over bad writing with the same kind of morbid ‘what the—’ that makes a person stare at something that they really do not want to look at. So, why would I spend so long reading seriously badly misspelled words? [...]

Rebuilding

I’ve had a long series of ups and downs, as anyone that has watched my websites has likely noticed. It has been a nasty battle with depression that has, for far too long, caused me to experience failure after failure in trying to get my work back up to the level that it was in [...]

College postponed

After thinking it through, and pondering where I want to be in 3 years, and in 5 years, I decided that I am going to postpone entering college until at least the spring semester. There is still a lot going on in my life at the moment, and on top of all of the stuff [...]