Slightly Off the Mark

 Let me tell you all a story of improper editing, and how I left a path of scorched earth behind me that no army could hope to replicate. Th...

 Let me just get this out of the way: I, a humor writer, will never be as funny as Terry Pratchett. But I don't feel so bad about that, ...

In all the decades I've been getting an annual flu shot, this is the first time I can remember having a reaction. (I'm fine now, o...

 Ordinarily, rather than posting the details from my newsletter here, I post a link to the newsletter and beg you to subscribe. But this is ...

 Unless you’re one of those people of questionable sanity who likes cold weather, October has little to offer Hoosiers except autumn colors...

 After the 9/11 terrorist attacks a severely damaged, but still alive, pear tree was found in the remains of the World Trade Center complex....

Now that I've finished the final draft of my new novel and handed it over to Emily to edit, I had to go back and figure out why I starte...

Well, it's been four days since Emily had knee surgery, I think ... I don't know, I haven't slept since then. We thought we'...

Emily is having surgery on her knee tomorrow—an ACL rebuild, which is outpatient these days. So if you see less of us—or more of us— in the ...

 I don't eat a lot of scones. But when a new coffee shop here in Albion came out with something called a bacon cheddar scone ... well, t...