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Twenty Years

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My wife knew my writing before she knew me. We’d been hired to work for an independent comic book company — me, as a writer and her, as an artist. She’d read several scripts I’d written and she hoped that we’d work together on something, but that wasn’t to be. Still…she knew my writing and […]

What Consumes You?

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I recently wrote about the effort many writers spend in pursuit of getting people to know they exist…how the race to create a “platform” or “brand” trumps actually writing for some. It’s a pretty simple formula: spend a lot of time totally connected to social media, being a personality who shares links to great writing […]

Dandelion Seeds in the Wind

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I was born in Chicago and moved to Mundelein, Illinois when I was young. Mundelein isn’t far from Waukegan. Waukegan is where Ray Bradbury was born… Dandelion Wine While dyslexic, I loved to read. My favorite thing about school wasn’t recess or lunch or gym or any of my classes…my favorite thing was being allowed […]

The Cat Licker

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Over the weekend, my wife and I chatted with a friend about how what we’ve all wanted from our creative endeavors has changed over the years. While it was once an all-or-nothing race toward doing what would afford a living doing something creative, these days we all do what we want for the love of […]

William Shatner’s The Captains

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I’m a Star Trek fan by default. My earliest memories of the original series are from when I had chicken pox and spent a couple weeks being watched by my grandmother. My mom’s mom remarried, and the man she married was simply known to me as Pop — and there were few people on the […]