September 28, 2016
Did you know that Dickens' A Christmas Carol, though a novella, is not broken into "Chapters," but "Staves."
According to Webster's Dictionary, a 'stave' is a vertical wooden post or plank. I presume that Dickens chose to use 'stave' instead of 'chapter' as both a symbo...
August 16, 2016
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July 13, 2016
I am no longer a “full-time” author, and admittedly, I’m relieved. Lately, I have been losing the passion as a writer, so I decided to get a job as an event coordinator, something I love to do almost as much as writing when writing was exciting to me. Something about t...
June 26, 2016
Terrible things happen on a day-to-day basis. Sometimes, we are victims of a tragic moment, and sometimes, we are merely spectators. And sometimes, we are stuck in-between. Though we are only a spectator, we are affected in a way that makes the pain of the occurrence f...
May 20, 2016
Her name is Virginia Grafton-Wade, and the Chupacabra Series might not be what it is today without her.
This week, Virginia would have turned 99-years-old. I met her while delivering meals for the organization, Meals on Wheels, when I was living in Southern California...