Take a breath Wherever you are when you're reading this, stop and take a breath. Now, take another breath. Make it a little deeper and longer than the breath you just took. Maybe hold that breath for a couple of seconds between inhaling and exhaling. Take that second…
What makes a writer a good writer? I'm sitting in my front yard wondering about any follow-up I may have to that question. I'm sure any number of people have an answer. They are sure their answer is the right answer. Their answer explains exactly what…
Grrr... I'm a day behind because on Sunday I became overrun with some emotions. Emotions are dumb. I was also super tired from spending the day at Six Flags: Discovery Kingdom. So now I gotta catch up. Blogtober is hard. In some ways, I'm making it…
The other day, my good friend, Brian C. E. Buhl, wrote a day-in-the-life-post. So... I thought I'd do one too. This is for Friday the 13th of October. All time stamps are approximations. 8:30 AM: I woke up. I usually wake up between 7:00 and 8:…
Here's a memory that came up on Facebook, that I felt needed to be shared on my website. I originally wrote this three years ago today, in the middle of quarantine. Random thought while making coffee... He's called Winnie the Pooh. THE Pooh. So... "Pooh&…
I'm going to ignore that it's Friday the 13th of October and not write about anything Halloween or horror-related. Instead, I'm gonna get esoteric and weird... The last social outing I had before the COVID shutdown was a Sunday brunch with one of my…
I feel craptastic today. I slept for shit last night. thanks to the reoccurring pain that flares up in my back from a car accident in 2004. I should be taking the day off. Napping and chilling. But I told myself I would succeed at Blogtober this year. So... Here&…
Last night on my Gallowclass LIVE writing stream, one of my new followers brought a couple of new people with them. Another one of my regular viewers said something about maybe bringing others. In response, I soap-boxed about how people should give shoutouts to the creators they appreciate and the…
"I'm Halloween Jack. Let's go scare some demons." -Halloween Jack and the Devil's Gate "One thing Boy Scout had learned, probably the most important thing he’d learned from his mother’s books, the ones Dad hated, was that if you…
I'm not posting the rant I mentioned in yesterday's blog tober post. It's written in my journal, but I'm thinking I'll hold off on that one. Sometimes we shouldn't put some of the things we write into the…
