I'm reading the Harry Potter series to Elysha and the kids. We're enjoying it very much. One of our favourite parts of the day. See what I did there? But…

There is a short cross street in my neighborhood that connects two infrequently traveled longer streets. It's just a couple hundred yards long. A total of eight houses on the…

I wrote this exactly one year ago today after a long bike ride. _________________________________________ I saw a hawk circling overhead today as I wound my way around an empty church…

In case you don't know or have forgotten, comic books came under fire in the 1950's by conservative firebrands claiming that they were causing juvenile delinquency. This crusade was initially…

The story behind the title of my fifth novel, "Twenty-one Truths About Love," is an interesting one. My original title for the book was "Lists," since the book is written…

Last week I received an email from a high school sophomore who had read my book Storyworthy. He was looking for additional tips to improve his conversations and interactions with…

Competitive storytelling is a strange thing. Take a stage. Share your truth. Ask a team of judges (or in the virtual world, an audience poll) to determine a winner. I…

I spent an enormous amount of time last night dreaming about strategies to mentally divide whole numbers and decimals by decimals. This has absolutely nothing to do with what I…