Let's recap, shall we? Dad's passing in November threw everything out of kilter, particularly writing the book.  Not just out of b...

I'm a writer.  It's incumbent to my nature to put down my thoughts and observations, either for personal review later on or for appr...

Very sad news today about John Forbes Nash, Jr. and his wife Alicia , who perished in an automobile accident last night in New Jersey. ...

You know you've hit the big time when you land a gig with the Muppets.  So it has now happened with violinist/dancer/artistic force of ...

You couldn't resist, could you?  You were duly warned.  You were told that there was nothing that I could do.  And yet some of you coul...

In the past few days I've seen a lot of commotion about the first Republican presidential "debate", set for a few months from ...

I said a few posts down that I spent the weekend away from the Internet, so I could re-focus my thoughts, especially toward writing the book...

Two days after the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm two and a half years ago, a friend from high school told me over Facebook that her daught...

The post that could finally break The Knight Shift. Maybe the post that finally sends me to prison.  Or at least will have people wanting ...

This is my cousin, Rachael : No, guys: you may not ask me for her phone number.

Exhausted.  Worn down and running on bare metal.  Whether the drugs are helping or dragging down on mere being is something no longer discer...

I have no tears and I must cry. The drugs took the tears all away. I miss being able to cry.

This past day was a bittersweet one. My sister and Dad's sister and her husband and I set to work on cleaning out the basement of my p...

"The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block'" is the title of one Dennis Upper's article, publis...

Nearly thirty years after the Challenger disaster, it is now coming out that the first "regular citizen" to fly on a space shuttl...

...I am writing for my book. Let's summarize for a moment.  Last May and up until late October, my book was going at a very good pace....

Okay, it's not a "perfect" movie.  I for one would have appreciated more of Ultron's legendary Oedipus complex between h...