Back of the Envelope

After spending two days in Pompeii and Herculaneum, we decided to spend the next day in Naples and see one of the castles. Castel Nuovo ...

Last time, I talked about the first part of our honeymoon, in Rome.  I've been negligent in talking about the next part, which involved ...

On the Tuesday after our Sunday wedding, we departed for Rome, Italy. We took an overnight flight on Al Italia, arriving around 8 am on Wed...

...happened two weeks ago.  Prince William married . . . some woman, I presume.  I really wasn't paying attention.  I was more concerned...

Given the events at Japan's Fukushima reactor , many folks, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have said that we need to take...

Welcome to the 117th Storyblogging Carnival.We had to skip a month, since we were short on entries.  Unfortunately, we still only have three...

I'm afraid I didn't get enough entries for a Storyblogging Carnival this month.  We'll try again in March.

I hate to do this, but I don't have enough entries to do a Storyblogging Carnival.  If I get enough within the next week, I'll post ...

 I've been writing a Weird Western story, and as a result, thinking a bit about superspeed (as it's an ability I want some of my cha...

Sometimes, you read about solution so novel, you just can't wait to see it tried.  This was presented by Jeffrey J. Williams in Inside H...

I bought a bed yesterday.  Or at least a mattress and box spring.  This is a product of two circumstances: I am getting married in May. M...

The next Storyblogging Carnival will go up on Monday, February 7th. If you use your blog to share your fiction, then the Storybloggin...

It's been a while since I linked to Doc Rampage , but he's had some interesting things to say recently.  I especially like his two ...

Kristin and I had lunch at a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant with a friend of ours, Rene, today.  Rene got a fun fortune cookie: Keep yo...

Welcome to the 116th Storyblogging Carnival. Once again I'm late, which is a shame, since there are some new contributors this time. N...

I used to have a three revision process for all my stories, which I know I posted about before, but I think the post got lost in the move ba...

I don't usually make New Year's resolutions.  That said, I do have a couple of goals for the year.  These are: Get married.   Oka...

This has less to do with newsworthy events, and more to do with my personal life. You may or may not be interested. I don't usually po...

Livia Blackburne has a post about how she's improved in writing this past year, namely how she's improved her style of writing.  Tha...

The next Storyblogging Carnival will go up on Monday, January 10th. If you use your blog to share your fiction, then the Storybloggin...