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Today I switched gears to lead four back-to-back 90-minute sessions of high school English classes in Yancey County. I’d been looking forward to this experience for a number of reasons, most [...]

Incidentally, the cast works in my favor with the 5th, 6th, and 7th graders at this McDowell County elementary school. They’re quite impressed with the bright blue pump and the fact that I broke [...]

This fall, I spent 6 weeks in Alaska. During that time I clocked about 100 trail miles (walks, jogs, hikes, backpacking), 100 bike miles, and almost 1,000 miles by car. Less than 24 hours before [...]

It’s a whirlwind of a day teaching four 90-minute long sessions to 5th, 6th, and 7th graders in McDowell County. All totaled, I see about 100 students. We talk about similes and the five senses, [...]

“Discipline” is going to be the name of the game these next two weeks. That and “fun.” I’m serving as Artist in the Schools for McDowell County (starting Monday morning, bright and early) but I’m [...]

[Weymouth board member Elaine Sills and I after tonight’s live music performance in The Great Room of Boyd Mansion. The performers? Esteemed Fred Moyer (pianist) and Nancy Green (celloist), [...]

I don’t often like to reflect the negatives in life. If a situation is challenging, I’ll take some personal time after I get through it to consider how I might grow from that challenge. But by [...]

More Weymouth related writing soon, but for now: John Carr Walker and I were pleased to learn today that our literary debut with TRACHODON was written up in New Pages this Monday morning. It’s [...]

Newsy News Flash: Three of my war short-shorts were accepted for publication by Future Cycle Flash, a new online flash fiction magazine! They selected my stories for the debut of their magazine [...]

I’ve often been asked if I ever feel self-indulgent with “all this time to just write.” It’s an innocent enough question, but my response is pretty clear: If a lawyer wakes up in the [...]