Rough Edges

This is my end of the year post covering both my writing and my reading for 2004. It was a pretty good year for both. Since 1980, I’ve b...

I'm reading a novel by an author who's a fairly big name in his genre. This is also a book that won a major Best of the Year award....

In looking through my records the other day before I posted about my first sale, I noticed that in the late Seventies I sold one story each ...

Twenty-eight years ago, I was a newlywed, living in a small, shotgun-style apartment built onto the side of an older house, working for my f...

We had a low-key but very nice Christmas at home. Spent most of the morning leisurely unwrapping presents. Since the kids are older we don...

There's still snow on the ground from the storm earlier in the week, so I'm officially declaring this a White Christmas, only the th...

A friend of mine sent this to a Western writers' group we both belong to, so I thought I'd pass it along. S. Omar Barker was a cowb...

That's how I've thought of December 23 ever since I was a little kid, just one of those odd things that sticks in your mind from chi...

Who can resist a website with a name like that? http://a23.com/babesinspace/contents.html

We spent most of the day replacing shingles and repairing some damage on our barns. We should have done this before now, but life's jus...