I'm rather enjoying blogging about writing a book, even though there has been a severe deficit in blogging about everything else.  Mark ...

I'm not the same man that I used to be.  Not since I was finally given that which I have wanted most of all. For a very long time, and w...

It was a grim irony that last night, when Dad told me that the news had just broke that Robin Williams was dead, I was working on my book an...

I just finished writing the very most difficult chapter of the book yet.  No doubt it will be the hardest of the book when it's all fini...

No, not like that!   I mean her music! I've come back from a week in the mountains, staying in the abode of my best friend/filmmaking ...

I've only been able to listen to two tracks from it so far (am waiting to listen to the rest with a friend later this evening) but Manda...

Dear readers, I am REALLY getting fed up with some technical issues that are keeping abusive comments from being deleted. As of now I am mak...

Six months, if that.

I'm going to take time out from working on the book and professional obligations to say something that does not come out of any sense o...

So today I began taking dulcimer lessons. How it came to be that I'm learning to play dulcimer, is a long story. But I think that I...

Dear God: Are You hearing me? Do You care at all about us, about any of us? I think about people who believe in You worldwide, who are...

From the very beginning of its fourth season this past October, The Walking Dead has been sitting unplayed on my DVR, taking up a sizable a...

The last time I saw a movie called Godzilla on a big screen it was 1998, the evening before its official release date.  Two hours later I...

The Knight Shift wishes George Lucas all the best - and a lot of appreciation - on this, the occasion of his 70th birthday!

I need to write more. Let me restate that.  I need to write more here , on this blog.  Because if I write more here, maybe it will help me a...

Am now at the start of my third week on lithium carbonate, better known in the common vernacular as plain old "lithium". Lithium...

Forget not in the light what has been learned in the darkness.