Ford Focus collides with Stop Sign

Odometer Update: 311,475 I was starting to feel pretty confident about my driving and then I ran into a stop sign. My confidence has been…>>

Famous Quote First Drafts

I’ve found that one of the most difficult things in writing is to keep your sentences concise and to the point. For instance, that first…>>

Second “Girlfriend” – Eighth grade

My second “girlfriend” attempt was toward the beginning of 8th grade. Things were looking up – I’d dropped the glasses for contacts, thinned out a…>>

Attainable Resolutions

I read once in a magazine called “Motivational Science Digest” that I just made up, that the key to achieving your goals is to make…>>

Twelve re-tweetable short stories (not stolen from Ernest Hemingway)

I am worried that in the near future, writers of all genres will learn to keep every sentence to 140 characters or less, for the…>>