Slightly Off the Mark

 2021 sucked. I mean, totally blew, as the kids say, which is the same as sucked in the same way people use flammable and inflammable. On a ...

Happy birthday to my youngest daughter, Jill! I tortured her a couple of years ago with some of these photos, so why not again? She was ki...

  So far as I can remember this was last published fourteen years ago, so it's a safe assumption most of my readers don't remember i...

I have a new (and free) short story up on the newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/1a341fafb2bb/free-christmas-short-story Because we all deserve...

  Happy birthday to Emily, who was born on what’s usually the first day of winter—which I prefer to think of as the time when the days star...

 Last year I was inspired to write a parody holiday season song, and this year it appears I still haven't learned my lesson. Here's ...

 Hey, I almost forgot: December 13th marked my thirtieth anniversary working in Noble County Government! It's complicated, because I spe...

 Yeah, I'm into cheap Christmas jokes to sell books. Santa's a big reader. Well, he's a big everything. But seriously, we really...

I suppose this would be a good time to remind all of you that books are, by far, the best Christmas gifts. Yes, even for non-readers: In fa...

 Just a few photos and video of a house fire we fought late on Saturday, November 20th. (You may have already seen some of these on Facebook...