You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it..

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the r….

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write..

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner..

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role..

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies..

Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' tax….

I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medica….

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell h….

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty..