*Sigh*  I have been known to go on and on about the critical nature of attention to factual accuracy in nonfiction writing.  So it is with a certain amount of…View post

Our almost-two-year-old does this thing now where she says, “I sleeping,” then squeezes her eyes shut and flops over backward…all very convincing except for the compression-wrinkles at the corners of…View post

I still remember watching herky-jerky home movies of my great-uncles ski-jumping in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  I suspect the film was shot sometime right around World War II.  I have never…View post

Writer Daphne Young interviewed me in advance of the upcoming Fox Cities Book Festival.  Daphne had done her homework and we covered some ground, from Neil Diamond to Kenny Chesney…View post

Should you find yourself working for a man who repeatedly insists, “money is no object,” by all means get paid up front.