If someone were to ask me who my creative heroes were, who inspired me and made me want to be a storyteller myself, I could rattle off a laundry list of names for them. People like Robert Heinlein, Joss Whedon, Stephen King, Gene Roddenberry, and Bill Willingham would all feature very highly on that list. [...]

When Krista and I got married way back in November of ’99, we lived with her father in the house we currently occupy. Without going into details you won’t care to read about, an intimate moment was interrupted, and the next day we were looking for a new place to live in. Several hunting trips [...]

This weekend my wife, brother, and I tackled the long-awaited flowerbed work that we’d been planning on since we moved in earlier this year. Both the front yard and the side yard needed some beautification, so over the course of two days we tilled up the area where the beds were going to be put [...]

I always dread the coming of Summer, because it means I’m going to have to go outside and engage in a horrible activity known as manual labor. I do not like it. I am a lazy person by nature, who appreciates the comfort of air conditioning and the warming rays of a computer monitor and/or [...]

Hey, everybody! The design of my blog hadn’t changed since I got it, so I thought I’d try and spruce things up a bit with a new look. Please let me know what you think. There are other themes I have my eye on, but this one sings to me a bit more than the [...]