The Quivering Pen

When I was working as a public affairs NCO with the 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad in 2005, my primary job duties included writing press r...

Congratulations to Lynne P who won last week's Friday Freebie, copies of Gregory Maguire's The Next Queen of Heaven and Ben Greenm...

It's Veterans Day and you know what that means, right?  Jeans are up to 75% off at Macy's! For another portion of our nation's...

Starland Vocal Band:  Afternoon Delight Michael Cimino:  The Deer Hunter Jim Nabors:  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Harper Lee:   To Kill a Mockin...

“Place is important to my writing, and one of my best practices is to get in the car and drive. Images from those drives—a janitor in a lig...

On today's menu: 1.   It's not often that I tell you that you MUST read something (I believe firmly in freewill and completely lea...

I'm offering up two books for this week's giveaway: Gregory Maguire's The Next Queen of Heaven and Ben Greenman's Celebrit...

Lightening things up (hopefully), here's a small chunk from the novel.  "SMOG" is the Secure Military Operations Grid, a ficti...

Leafing back through my Iraq journal when I served in the Army as a Public Affairs NCO, here's what I found for November 2, 2005 (and, y...

I'm still reeling with a language hangover from the 11th Annual Montana Festival of the Book held in Missoula this past weekend.  It wa...