In 2008, I had four jobs, three phone numbers, and six addresses, not counting PO boxes. I had the two best-paying jobs I’ve ever had, and I also had to dig for change for gas and groceries. I sold or gave away almost everything I owned, twice. I went to sell plasma but never got [...]

Live Long and Marry is an event to raise money to support marriage equality and oppose the amendment coming up for a vote in California. At least 200 people so far are coming together to ply their creative skills and auction off art, writing, crafts, and anything else they can come up with. Ever wanted [...]

Here’s where I face up to the fact that I will not finish a novel by age 30.

I nearly stepped on this frog at the edge of a dried-up retention pond in Gulf County.

As I sit here in my room in the double-wide where I live with the fire crew, maybe 15 meters from my office, studying a manual in preparation for a test to get my state pesticide applicator’s license, it occurs to me: A whole lot of people would be laughing their asses off if they [...]

It’s been a while, and much has changed. I’ve moved, for one thing. I’m now living in the Florida panhandle. And why did I move? Because I have a new job! I’m working for The Nature Conservancy, an organization whose awesomeness I’ve been aware of for a long time. I always sort of hoped [...]

I’ve been working two jobs and searching for another. And I’m working on two writing projects: The Afflicted, which I hoped to finish by now but which I have not; and a short story that is doing its best to turn into a novella, for my writer’s group. This does not leave all that much [...]