Miles O'Neal

I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd on their first big tour, opening for the Who in Atlanta. Both bass players that night (Leon Wilkeson for LS and John En

Up to this point we were just two normal-looking customers awaiting service, but eventually we felt we had to take action. "Keep Austin

"It's a joke, son, Ah say, it's a JOKE!" (I remember hearing Foghorn Leghorn in my head, and having to argue myself out of

All of us have lost, tossed, sold, or given away stuff over the years that we've later wished we hadn't. When I dropped out of college...

You're at a vow renewal where your spouse knows the bride, but you know only your spouse and two people sitting on the bride's side. At...

I've read as far back as I can remember. During my teen years and most of my adult life, I read at least 2-3 books a week; during peak...

On a brazen shore In southern Alabama Thousands of years ago Where false idols fell In a barren waste By a rocky cairn By a boat's dried...

When I was a kid, I was the remote. I had to actually get up and walk all the way to the TV to change the volume or channel. Or stop it...

"There's something about a train that needs watching. I think we forget that." -Neil Ellis Orts "In Soviet Russia, train watches you!"...

Twenty years or so ago, I was trying to get serious about writing. I wasn't getting anywhere, and experienced what we commonly call...

I'm on author Dan Koboldt's email list. His new year's eve email included the nugget below based on something Tobias Buckell (another...

I had a number of influential teachers, but none more so for my writing than Ms. Marian Unger, my subversive high school senior year...

A bass player acquaintance related a story of his band's drummer making silly faces at their new singer during rehearsal. The singer took...

A year or so ago, there was a Facebook chain post asking who your favorite childhood cartoon character was. When I was a kid we didn't...

"Don't take life so serious, son ... It ain't no how permanent." -Porky Pine (Pogo comic strip) The same sentiment should apply to how we...

A recent Sunday NY Times column Sunday Book Review titled "Between Books" by Ann Packer contained the following bit which I found...

I used to say, "I've written pretty much everything but novels and romance. I can't write those." Then I accidentally (yes, really!)...