We've just returned from vacation and so that means I'm posting blog entries about the event.  You can check them out over on my travel blog:

http://13exits.wordpress.com

As of this moment, the first two posts are up.  It is my intention to put one up per day for the next week or so.

Yep, that's right - today is my birthday!

And you know what that means… it means the second most famous dude to be born on the 16th of March is livin' large and partyin' down.  I'll leave it up to you to decide if Eric Estrada is or if I am the first most famous dude born on this splendid day after the Ides of March.  I know where my money is.

But ( Read more... )

Just a short post to say thanks to everyone who has emailed me asking about ordering information for the Chinese Whisperings anthology, "The Red Book". There has been a slight delay in the release of the book, so it won't be released until January 1, 2010 for e-book formats and January 10, 2010 for print ( Read more... )

A number of people have commented that I've been relatively quite here on the blog-o-sphere and so I wanted to let you know what's been going on.

I have been asked to be a part of a writing project called "Chinese Whisperings". The first publication for Chinese Whisperings, "The Red Book," is set to publish later this year. I've been busy writing ( Read more... )

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on August 28, 2009 which was: "(A new Government research and development facility is built on a decomissioned prison site"
To read it, click here:

http://thirteenthdimension.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/of-the-people/

As always, thank you for reading.

I know for some of my friends here, this is a duplicate, but I thought I would share the few pictures I have from the tornado here a couple weeks ago.  You can view them here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2014630&id=1420302262&l=78d2c8eeb7

and here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2014775&id=1420302262&l=108fda047b

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday   prompt on July 17, 2009 which was:  "(your character) stops on the way home from work and purchases a unique musical instrument -- why today?"
To read it, click here:

http://thirteenthdimension.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/music-in-the-air/

As always, thank you for reading.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Well, despite the fact that I am one of the most positive and optimistic people I know, even I have to admit that this was a sad day. Yes, despite my best efforts to stave it off, the end has come. The world just seemed darker and colder when I woke up today because it was immediately thrust upon me that vacation was ( Read more... )

Friday, July 3, 2009

Well, my friends, we're very nearly coming to the end of our wild and crazy vacation extravaganza. Depending on how you see the world, if you see the glass as half full or half empty, today was either the last day of the vacation or the next-to-last day. For me, the eternal optimist, today was clearly the next-to-last day of ( Read more... )

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Well, before I go any further (typing the date may have already gone too far), I must shout out that I wish my wife, ( Read more... )