Monthly Archives: December 2011

By the Great Horn Spoon!

By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m decades past my school years, but I must confess that I still love reading Sid Fleischman books. Djingo Django, The Ghost in the Noonday Sun, … Continue reading

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Need a New Year’s Snack Food Tip? Try Mexitalian!

If you are tired of serving cheezwhiz on crackers or mini weenies for your New Year’s party, you might want to try this awesome Mexitalian dish created by a genius friend of mine. Bryan’s a professor of art at Huntington … Continue reading

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The Christmas Caper free for Kindle

The Christmas Caper will be free for five days on Amazon! I’m reasonably certain that this will help the leadership transition in North Korea to occur smoothly and even promote democracy, several IKEAs, and a McDonald’s beachhead (well, one can … Continue reading

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Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m giving this series to one of my nephews for his birthday this week. I can’t remember how many times I read Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles when I … Continue reading

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The Unbearable Frightfulness of the Labor Department

I grew up working on our family farm. We started young and we started early. From what I can remember, my brothers began around the age of twelve, working on a celery crew. I started later, being a slacker, moving … Continue reading

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Loud and rambunctious

Loud and rambunctious describes our family Christmas yesterday. It included a ham, a turkey, one dozen children between the ages of 19 months and 18 years, eight adults, and several cats that were wisely nowhere to be seen. We spent … Continue reading

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First screening of The Fellows Hip

I mentioned a while back that I co-wrote the script for an indie film called The Fellows Hip that was shot last year out on the East Coast (the film is a comedy nod to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings). … Continue reading

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Ice and Fire

I just published a story called Ice and Fire. If anything, it’s an old-fashioned fairytale. Boy meets Girl, King gets greedy, Monsters show up, etc. That sort of thing. You can read more about it here.

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Christmas in Egypt

I’m becoming more convinced that the collective body of communication we refer to as as “the news” is a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction. When a journalist reports the circumstances of an event, but chooses to only mention certain portions … Continue reading

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Back from vacation…

We went south for vacation. If I left it at that, there’s a lot of mystery inherent in that short sentence. South? Tierra del Fuego? Peru? Did they go artifact-pilfering in the ancient Mayan ruins of the Yucatan? Is he … Continue reading

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