This past Tuesday finds another checkmark on the list of things I’ve been waiting to come to pass. Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot received its first official DVD release and will sit with honor next to my Ultraman DVD set. Oh, the horror stories my poor parents could tell you about my afterschool routine […]
Wanted: Outback Steakhouse in the Afterlife
I’m not a good patient. Never have been and never will be. I used to find more reasons to get out of bed while sick when I was growing up than my mother did for reasons why I should stay in it. Ironically, when I wanted to stay in bed is exactly the time she […]
A Voice in the Present Becomes a Voice in the Past
“And how we face death is at least as important as how we face life, wouldn’t you say?” (James T. Kirk) I was perhaps twelve the last time I saw someone suffering and close to death. I didn’t understand it from a personal aspect, only technically that my grandfather was hallucinating most of the day […]
The Waiting Game
Sunday, March 17, 2013. Have you ever watched someone slipping away? I haven’t. I’m a total newbie at this, which is odd considering my real age and not my fake age. Things tend to play out like scenes from movies and television programs we’ve been watching for years. The difference is those of us here […]
The Why Behind Why I Blog
Mortality has been a topic of conversation around both my family and my husband’s family as of late. There’s been a lot going on, mostly personally and a little professionally. Ideally, I’d prefer that be reversed because it’s much easier to write about exciting things going on in one’s professional life than to take a […]
The Inability To Accept Giving Up
There is an unfortunate consensus between my husband, brother-in-law and me that my father-in-law-who-doesn’t-know-he’s-my-father-in-law may be giving us less-than-subtle hints that he’s either giving up or given up. It’s something that’s been on our minds the last couple of days, only none of us knew the other was thinking it nor did we want to […]
To Therapize or Not to Therapize…That Is the Question
Life sometimes throws a snowball at you and giggles. Fine. Life sometimes throws a snowball with yellow snow at you and giggles even harder. A little annoying, but, really, what are you going to say? Fine. Then life sometimes decides to pelt you with snowballs before sending a giant frickin’ snowman sized snowball hurtling after […]
I Am Iron Man
Alter egos have been a topic of conversation as of late between fellow author Dorien Grey and myself. There’s Dorien and there’s Roger, but where does one end and the other begin? Many authors use pseudonyms for various reasons. I had a need for privacy some sixteen years ago that would allow me to keep […]
A December of Sorrow, A Year of Remembering
Is it me or does December 2012 seem like a morose one for the record books? I mean, here we wait all year long for this one month when we can create a little colorful, non-Halloween chocolate, non-Easter chocolate magic for the children in the family and buy up a few Blu-Rays at ridiculously low […]
Nightmares of a Writer’s Mind
I joke about having nightmares regarding a certain unnamed author named Patricia Logan, but, really, can one have nightmares about a living nightmare? No. I do, however and in all honesty, continue to have nightmares about my university years. And I don’t mean for you to think that anything bad happened back then. Nothing did. […]
