Today I’m writing from the Virginia home of my daughter Jessie, who writes the blog Rurally Screwed and who has emerged as a pretty good example of how one does the whole blog thing correctly. (Step 1: Make it about something, and update it every day, instead of just when you feel like it.) […]
The goodness that is ‘Breaking Bad’
OK, I won’t review the season four premiere of Breaking Bad, except to say that the writing is stronger than ever and those two memorable characters, Jessie and Walt, are becoming unforgettable. Looks like they’re in for a very tough ride in the weeks ahead. Note to Walt: Next time you see Gus Fring […]
Farewell to the last of the cowboys
I never get too maudlin around Father’s Day. My own dad died when I was 9 years old and I have only a few memories of him. Mom later married a rancher named Glen P. Wood. We all knew him as him Pat. He died yesterday at the age of 88. I do have […]
Where I’m writing from
I stayed up too late last night reading some stories by Raymond Carver. They’re so short you decide to go on to the next one, and then the next. Then it’s 2 a.m. and you realize that a person who is slightly prone to depression should probably not read so many of them in […]
It’s a thankless task
I'm rewriting my novel. Well, technically I’ve been rewriting it for about as long as I’ve been writing it, but this is different. The other day I dusted off the flash drive where I stored the entire reeking mess 18 months ago, and now I am going through it with a bad attitude and […]
The blog about nothing much
A proper blog needs a theme, doesn’t it? I’ve been doing this one for about three and a half years now, and have yet to decide what it’s about. When I started out back in June of 2007, it was going to be all about crime writing. Then I realized there were a lot […]
A couple of books worth reading
In the absence of any other likely topic, here’s what I’ve been reading over the last few days: Tomato Red, Daniel Woodrell’s 1998 novel about a white-trash loser in the Ozarks, is right up there with the excellent Winter’s Bone, which I once strongly recommended to the wife’s book group. They demurred, perhaps because […]
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