A More Perfect Union
I’ll get back to Flash Fiction Tips soon — over the weekend or early next week. But I’ve also posted about history on this site; with Thieftaker, my first historical fantasy, coming out later this...
View ArticleMusic From My Kids
I used to tell my daughters that no good music had been produced since sometime in the late 1970s. I didn’t really believe it, but they were younger then, and at the time they were listening to some...
View ArticleA Post About Balance in the Writing Life
Today I have a post up at the SFNovelists blogsite, a site I maintain in cooperation with approximately 100 other published authors of fantasy and science fiction. The post (written under David B....
View ArticleA Post About Narrative and Life, At Magical Words
Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain, under the name David B. Coe, with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty...
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Two Days on the Blog Tour
I was on the road yesterday, driving home from North Carolina after a fun and successful signing tour that began with a book launch party at ConGregate in Winston-Salem, and then took me to Rock Hill,...
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Where Do the Years Go?
Earlier today I put one of them on a plane to Germany for her semester abroad. The other one is already getting letters from college admission offices. I swear, I don’t know where the years went. They...
View ArticleLittle Things
Sometimes it’s the little things that get us through a rough day — a warm exchange of messages with our teenage kid, time to chat with dear friends at a slow signing, the sound of a guitar with brand...
View ArticleGuitar in the Evening
So, I’ve started giving guitar lessons to my younger daughter. She loves music, she sings beautifully, and she’s a talented writer and poet. I think that if she can learn guitar, she’ll start writing...
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My Mom
There was a time when I was in graduate school . . . I was working on a paper — a big one, the cornerstone project of one of the classes I was taking at the time — and struggling to figure out what...
View ArticleThe Virtual Tour Goes to the Library
I discovered worlds there. As a kid, I was fascinated by nature and the Apollo moon missions, and so I took out every book I could find on birds and mammals, rockets and space. Thanks to the librarian...
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Beyond the Dark Place: A #HoldOnToTheLight Post
We traffic in emotion and internal monologue, in the interpretation of sensation and the vagaries of mood and feeling. Most of the time — at least ideally — we can separate our own emotions and...
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The South Australia Coast — Photo Friday
Good morning and welcome to the first installment of Photography Fridays, my new 2020 blogging feature. The point of this is to share with you my passion for photography, which is nearly as strong as...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Music and Memory
Last week, I wrote about the musical biographies and autobiographies I’ve been reading, and I wanted to stay on the theme of music this week. I am the youngest of four kids, and all of my siblings are...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Writing What We Have To
I need to work through the memories and regrets, the guilt and love, the unresolved conflicts and incomplete conversations. Not because I want to, though I do, and not even because I might actually...
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Photo Friday: Rain-fed Streams
Sometimes we take photos for the sake of art, other times to commemorate events – times with loved ones, special occasions, etc. And on occasion we snap pictures simply to document something unusual....
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Photo Friday: Family History
For this week’s Photo Friday, I offer a different sort of photo, one that comes with a bit of a story. My Uncle Bill (left) fought and died in World War II. He was eventually stationed somewhere in...
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Photo Friday: A Winter Walk
Last weekend, in between rainstorms, Nancy and I got out for a lovely walk on what is known here as the Mountain Goat Trail. The Mountain Goat is an old railroad bed and the MGT Alliance is part of the...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Covid-19 and Hope
Last week, when I wrote my Monday Musings post, I was pretty ticked off at the world. And this week, after watching “protesters” in Michigan, North Carolina, and other states take part in the worst...
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Monday Musings: A Lifetime of Birdwatching
Those who know me well, know that I am an avid birdwatcher. My older brothers got me started when I was just a kid. And when I say just a kid, I mean that – I started birding when I was seven. For...
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Monday Musings: My Mom
We lost my mother nearly twenty-five years ago. It seems like so much longer, and it seems like yesterday. A cliché, I know, but true. I am the youngest of four children, and by the standards of the...
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