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The Cobalt City universe has a big cast of characters, any of whom can easily take center-stage in a story with little notice. Usually featured as team players, each has their own unique flavor, their own way of dealing with problems. And they each have certain quirks they bring to the table that allow me…
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It’s become something of a sad mantra for my writing group and many friends as of late. See, it’s like this. Our local coffeehouse, where I have done and gone to many a reading, a haven for the genre-enthusiast, shares a building with a shop that caught fire shortly before Thanksgiving. The Wayward Coffeehouse was…
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I was picked on quite a bit in middle school all the way up through when I left high school. In most instances, it was the casual cruelty of name calling. There were times when it was more, but for the most part, it was the name calling. The words. Say “Sticks and stones don’t…
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Kids generally love me. Maybe it’s that I grew up in my mom’s daycare so I don’t treat them like little aliens or brain-damaged tiny adults. I tend to treat kids like people. Regular, adult, people. I mean, I don’t share dick jokes with them, but I don’t share those with old nuns on the…
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I love my mom. That wasn’t always the case. When I was living at home, especially for a few years when I had to return there as an adult in my early 20’s, she frustrated the hell out of me. Living half-way across the country has helped with that. I knew that some of her…
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I have two families. There is the family that I chose, most of whom live up here. Then there is my blood family that, with the exception of my son, lives elsewhere. I’m used to holidays with one or the other, but my hand-built family has really seen the most of me in the past…
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Today has been a mixed bag, part writing (more on that in a bit), part house cleaning (very necessary as the mom is visiting next week), and part gabbing about cyberpunk on twitter. I can’t help that last one. I’m a bit of a cyberpunk geek, and the topic was the movie Inception and how…
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You know what’s even more awesome than breakfast at Cindy’s House of Pancakes in Seattle? Having it with fellow members of the HWA Northwest chapter, that’s what! Local chapter major-domo Angel Leigh McCoy organized a little get-together for us. Besides being a great opportunity to hang out with Angel and Jennifer Brozek who I had…
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Heading out in a few minutes to pick up some snacks then meet family at the train station. We’re going to Portland for the weekend, and I can hardly wait. I love the city, and don’t get down there often enough. That said, the last time my friend Jeremy went there, the city tried to…
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I had a mentor and sociology professor in college who used to state, “Any relationship where one person has power over another is a political relationship.” My dad, a bit of a socialist himself, got on great with him and used to call Dennis “the last Maoist west of the Rockies.” To say that they…
Tales from the Ragged Edge 