One of my core interests is space and astronomy. I’m especially fond of looking at the images captured by the Hubble telescope. I’m so glad that NASA decided to fix it.
This is one of my favorite images: NGC 6302 or The Butterfly Nebula. It does live within our Milky Way galaxy, but it’s almost 3,800 [...]

After a late night of wrestling with the beast known as my novel, I didn’t even realize the sad news until this morning.
Patrick Swayze has passed on.
Dirty Dancing is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. I still remembering seeing him in The Outsiders and Red Dawn and so when I saw DD, [...]

I can’t believe it’s now been 8 years since 9/11.
I still remember that day as if it were yesterday. And the effect on me has been profound. I think it changed my life path toward becoming serious about writing.
But I guess this is the case with all watershed moments. You never can remember anything that [...]

I’m back from vacation and now I’m gearing up to go back to the real world. Boo!
I’m a little slow and so I didn’t realize today was a “special” day. It’s September 9, 2009 or 09/09/09.
Why is it so special?
Well, because we won’t have another set of repeating, single-digit dates until January 1, [...]

It’s sort of sad because the summer is ending, but the good news is that I get to go on vacation! Yay! I haven’t had a few days off in a minute and I’m sooo looking forward to it.
Last night, I had to literally stop myself from reading Catching Fire. I’m half-way done and [...]