Oh, you grammar Nazis, you...

I'm one. I admit it. I'm even proud of it. (Yeah, I taught English for ten years.) I  hate  it when people misuse punctuation. Missp...

Florence Cassez, Freed

Ms. Florence Cassez, the French girl accused, incarcerated, found guilty, and sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for kidnapping, was ...

Those poor bots, man

Last week, for the first time ever, a spam comment made its way past the Blogger filters. First time in eighteen months . Like everyone, I g...

On Crime And Honor

This morning, in that misty land between waking and dreaming I hover after hitting snooze the first (or second) time, a realization on the m...

Apologetic (and funny) explanation Part II

The other reason why I fell off the face of the blogosphere there for a while is because I'm moonlighting as my own housekeeper. Our hou...

The Mexican Tragedy (A Rant)

My poor, poor country. So far from God, so close to... ignorance . The original saying, voiced by our last (official) dictator Porfirio Díaz...

A to Z: Zeitgeist

The spirit of the times.  Genius seculi .  What defines a nation, a community, an era . Zeitgeist  is important to writers. It doesn't j...

A to Z: Xenophobia

intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. ~ Mac dictionary fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is f...

A to Z: Skin--Thick or Thin?

You a writer? How many times have you heard, "grow a thicker skin"? Lots, huh? Me too. Have you succeeded? Does criticism or--gasp...