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I haven’t blog in quite some time, it seems. I’ve developed a love/hate relationship with social media, and I seem to be in a hate phase right now. I should probably take one of those social media sabbaticals I sometimes go on. I think I need to get away from Facebook, G+, and Twitter. Not… Continue reading Long Update Is Long

Edwin Jagger DE with Astra Platinum Blade Escali Badger Hair Brush Dapper Dragon Shaving Soap in Strawberry Lemonade LadySea Creations Shaving Scuttle Clubman Pinaud Aftershave As some of you know, I’ve stopped shaving with expensive multi-blade cartridges, going back to the way I was taught by my grandfather and the way I shaved until my… Continue reading Shave of The Day

“We go where we’re sent. We have names and we stand against that which must be faced.” So says the primary protagonist, United States Marshal John T. Marwood. Marshal Marwood is sent, or called, to the New Mexico frontier town of Haxan, and he’s already faced with a murder to solve right from the start.… Continue reading Review of “Haxan” by Kenneth Mark Hoover

I’m still working on my novel. MNFringe slowed me down. Also, I’ve been a little on the stuck side heading into the 1999 section. What I need is a day or two where I can focus on the novel to the exclusion of all else. Maybe I can work this out sometime in September. I… Continue reading Ghosts of the Places We Live Update #18

This is everyone’s reminder that the Minnesota Fringe Festival production I am taking part in, “Invisible People,” opens this Thursday, July 31st with 5 performances at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage -711 West Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405. Tickets are $12 and you need a Fringe Festival button, available at the venue for $4 Showtimes are:… Continue reading “Invisible People:” 5 Performances As Part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival and Speculations Reading at DreamHaven Books

This is everyone’s reminder that the Minnesota Fringe Festival production I am taking part in opens this Thursday, July 31st with 5 performances at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage -711 West Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405. Tickets are $12 and you need a Fringe Festival button, available at the venue for $4 Showtimes are: Thursday, 7/31… Continue reading “Invisible People”

I’ve been putting together my part of the “Invisible People” fringe show and thinking about my blindness and how it impacts my life. Sometimes people will ask me if miss driving. My knee-jerk response is “Yes,” but what I really miss is the independence, which is what they are really asking me about anyway. But… Continue reading Driving Blind: Car Stories

So 4th Street Fantasy Con. That’s a thing that happened this past weekend. I had a really good convention, in general. I didn’t make it to all the panels (panel fatigue hit late on Saturday), but the ones I attended were special. I am sad that I missed the “Advice From New Writers” panel on… Continue reading Post 4th Street Fantasy Convention Report

I will be reading at DreamHaven Books and Comics -2301 E 38th St, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 – on August 2nd from 6:30 to 7:45. I will be at DreamHaven Books and Comics to read from my new novel, “Dark Waters” and from my short story collection “Whispers in Space.” I will most likely bring a… Continue reading DreamHaven Reading

4th Street Fantasy Convention is fast approaching. As in it is happening on June 20th through June 22nd. Given that, it seems a good time to stop and post my schedule. Saturday, June 21, 2014 9:30 AM – Originality and Micro-genre Readers who are versed in a sub-genre and its conventions can find what outsiders… Continue reading 4th Street Fantasy Convention