Trish (my girlfriend) and I went on vacation to Vancouver, British Columbia, over Christmas and had the best time. The food, the scenery, the food, the beer, the food, and the beer, and the city. Best of all was the company. Trish’s brother Randall and his wife Patty hosted us and made the trip very [...]

The play I’m in, “ART,” by Yasmina Reza, opened on Friday, November 25. It was a fun, fantastic night, and even beter the second time me, James Coull, and Greg Wingard took the stage again on Sunday for the matinee at Central School here in Bisbee. On Saturday night, the second cast, Paul Bovee, Steve [...]

Through my production company, Last Minute Productions, we are producing and I am starring in a production of “Art,” the Tony-award winning play by Yasmina Reza. I’m really excited about this. The previous play through Last Minute Productions we did here in Bisbee was “True West” and that sold out and did very well. For [...]

Damn. And I thought not hearing anything back from editors was tough. When Hunter S. Thompson Penned Rolling Stone‘s Rejection Letters If you’re going to get this kind of rejection letter it might as well be penned by Hunter S. Thompson. Rolling Stone should keep this on file to send out to other worthy rejectees. [...]

There’s an article in the New York Times titled, “Do we need librarians?” Then there is a page for this debate among many lively and fascinating people arguing sides of this issue. But, if we’re having a debate about whether we need librarians or not, we’re beyond the help of librarians. To even raise it as an issue is ridiculous – librarians are one of the bastions of us as a society and a thinking civilization with a future. What’s next? “Books: Do we really need ‘em?”

I was fortunate enough to sit down with Ryan Bruce, station manager at KBRP radio, for an interview on the show Standing Room Only. It’s far-reaching, fun, and an interesting conversation about novels, reporting, writing, and much more. Click on More to hear …

Bobby Ryan is an offensive winger for the Mighty Ducks professional hockey team in Anaheim, California. He played for the United States in the 2010 Olympics, winning a silver medal. Bobby Ryan is a powerful player who — according to Brian Burke, who helped build the 2010 U.S. Olympic squad and who drafted Ryan onto the Ducks’ team — “can change a game by himself. This guy can break a game open.” Ryan also carried a secret past, starting with the fact that his name was Bobby Stevenson, not Bobby Ryan…

I love the supermarket. The overwhelming colors. The activity. The amazing food. Even the smallest supermarket has everything! Artichokes and eight kinds of apples and two kinds of pears and Otter Pops and spinach and … The Safeway in Bisbee is small, but it’s the only supermarket we’ve got. (Tombstone, up the road, doesn’t even have a supermarket.) I was feeling a little down a few days ago and I went to the supermarket for a freshly baked baguette and salad to make dinner. When I was there I appreciated how great the place was and transferred that thinking to my life and listed the colorful, unique, interesting things I had been through in the last week alone. It enabled me to get out of my own head and release myself from a torpor of pointless ennui and focus on good things …

LIVESTRONG.ORG story I wrote on razor-siping and running shoes:

Cutting the soles of running shoes is a time-honored, old-school running habit. Runners would slice small lateral grooves into shoes they felt weren’t flexible enough for their feet. They found that making the cuts made some shoes more comfortable because doing so allowed the foot to flex more naturally as they ran on large, cushioned mid-soles. To improve traction, comfort and foot flexibility, the practice of cutting soles has gone “new school” and is being embraced today by many shoe manufacturers…

Posted on Livestrong.org, my story on Fartlek training:

Fartlek, translated from Swedish, literally means “speed play.” Fartlek was the brainchild of Swedish national coach Gosta Holmer in the 1930s. His cross-country and track runners were lagging well behind the rulers of running at the time, Finland. Holmer, desperate to find a way to make his team faster, threw away the stopwatch. He set his runners free in fields and on trails to alter their speed as they saw fit, from fast to very fast — much like under race conditions…