So, I attempted the MA in English Lit program at my beloved NAU this past semester, and it is not for me. I want to create things and teach, but not critique everything to the point of hating reading and literature. Don’t get me wrong I learned some fascinating stuff…

Every time I read an article about creating a blog or website I wonder: am I the only one on the internet who hasn’t gotten a kickback from the folks at WordPress? Nothing against WordPress — no aspersions cast and all that — but to read a lot of these…

I took a class this spring on Women in 20th century American Arts and Culture, it was great. And while the term American was used in the broadest continental sense (north, south, and in-between), the subject of my mid-term paper was American music icon Billie Holiday. It helped that the…

I’m not a big fan of horror movies. Never have been, probably never will be. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good psychological thriller or ghost story. I enjoy being scared or surprised. But what often gets labeled as Horror, isn’t really my thing. Movies like Friday the 13th…

I saw a tweet the other day that said: Ask 10 writers how to write, and you’ll get 13 different answers. As much as that did produce a chuckle from me, it’s also the truth. In fact, that might be an understatement. The amount of writing produced about writing is…

Yesterday I saw a tweet mentioning The Usual Suspects and for a split second that little pang went off — you know the one I mean — the one you feel when you randomly remember something sweet an ex once did or said … and then vividly remember why they’re…

When I was in junior high school back in Southern California in the late 80s, we had to take home permission slips twice to be shown films in class. One was for sex ed, one was a film of accident scene images from drunk driving crashes. My mother signed both. …