Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 weeks 6 days ago.
Last week on my way to the grocery store, I saw a woman in her mid-twenties with her hair pulled back in a pony tail, wild wisps fraying out in all directions. She was smoking a cigarette on the front stoop of her apartment building. Her little boy, a b...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 1 month ago.
Aubrey and I were recently undertaking the unenviable task of Rug Doctoring the rugs in our living room and entry room. As you can see here, our brave protectors (Idgie is the black one, Lucy the white one) are more than a little nervous around the loud ...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 1 month ago.
When Dad first came home from the hospital, he tried staying in the master bedroom, but the waterbed was too rough for him. He needed too much help getting out of bed and upright. He decided it would be better to stay in the living room on a mattress. ...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 1 month ago.
Well, I'm still working. I've changed my approach a bit, which is one of the reasons you've not seen much of me here on the blog recently. I've pulled myself back and tried to stop taking everything so seriously. Sometimes I get into a project, I let e...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 1 month ago.
Here's an excerpt on the little noir-inspired school story I've been working on for awhile. It's a little more experimental than a lot of my stuff. I'll tell you in advance that the core of the story is simple and factual: a boy repeatedly smeared his p...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 2 months ago.
For some reason, maybe it's the weather, I can't stop thinking about when I was a little boy and Grandma would take me with her to see all of the country music acts that came through town. I remember seeing the Judds, Ricky Van Shelton, Randy Travis, Han...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 2 months ago.
I was reviewing some science tests tonight for work, and I came across this typo in one of the incorrect answers for a question. The sentence is supposed to read: Friction tends to slow down objects in motion. I really like the sentiment behind the sente...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 2 months ago.
I received an e-mail from Dad on Thursday with a subject line in all caps that read: SNAKES IN THE ROOF! Dad is an avid forwarder of goofy e-mails, so I assumed it was some sort of dirty joke or picture that he'd received from a friend and was forwarding...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 2 months ago.
For those of you who stop in from time to time, I apologize for the downtime. I was feeling a little too controlled by the blog so I shut it down. That's right, I showed it who is boss. I just needed to jump off the web for a few days. It was getting a...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 2 months ago.
I think my wife would agree with me on the following statement, based on her previous experiences with me: I believe writers make their work harder than it needs to be. I believe I get myself caught up thinking about all manner of things that really aren'...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 2 months ago.
I do not profess to be a writer of historical nonfiction. I prefer to tell my own stories because it gives me more freedom to roam with my descriptions and details. However, after stumbling into some information on Chief Shick Shack, I couldn't help but...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
Im just wonderinghas it ever happened to you that youve been in the throes of writing and something youre typing that very second pops up on the television screen or in a conversation peripheral to youThat's how a recent post begins at Brevity's Crea...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
I've had a lot of ups and downs lately in my personal life. Nothing to really address here. Just a lot of issues that I'm struggling with, both book related and non-book related. The book seemed so much easier when I was just crafting the stories and w...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
Dinty Moore wrote an interesting little post today over at Brevity about a man named Brad Williams who has what is called "hyperthymestic syndrome." Without going too in-depth, Mr. Williams has a flawless autobiographical memory. In essence, give him a ...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
This time, my words of wisdom come from Hall of Fame right fielder, Roberto Clemente. He once said:''Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.''He made his difference by br...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
Aubrey's granpda, Ken. A large, gentle man with a suede voice. Slow-moving now, with age, and an oxygen tube that keeps him from straying too far. He's the kind of man who is always tinkering with one thing or another. Making homemade candles. Drying...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
Here's an excerpt from an early draft version of a story I'm working on called "Wrestling Cowboy Blues." It's essentially the story of the role professional wrestling played in my life as a child. I loved wrestling, until one day when my favorite wrestl...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
I read Tom Montag's blog, The Middlewesterner, every day. Montag is a Wisconsin writer, who has been described as "defining the character of the Midwest - one character at a time." I've never personally read any of his published work, but I would like t...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
Biographicon is a website, based on the wiki model for writing, that allows all users to enter and write biographies of themselves. The website's slogan is "The Biographicon is for everyone's biography. Including yours." Biographicon has been labeled as ...
Posted by An Embarrassment of Riches 3 months ago.
Over the weekend, my parents came to help us with some landscaping work in the backyard. As we lugged wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of gravel and sand, we got caught up on our gossip and reminisced about old times and talked about how much my dad loves c...
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