Til the Last Hemlock Dies

Well, I turned in the final line-edits for THE LIVING END. I'm hoping that I didn't miss anything and that the editors catch them i...

Yesterday, on our drive back home from visiting Timmy and Dale, we stopped off at the Molly's Rock Recreation Area . I was hoping that t...

I went to SC today to see my brother Timmy who I hadn't seen in a very long time. Here's a photo of me and Timmy together. As you ca...

The latest acquisition for my Ditko/Kirby collection was this nifty issue of STRANGE TALES #85. The first time I walked into my dad's wa...

Various Southern Appalachian videos I've shot the past few years: Spring along the Appalachian Trail, Virginia. Ferns and bird calls in ...

Cover to DEAD BAIT II coming soon from Severed Press (with one of my stories).

Some weeks back, the good folk at Severed Press asked me to submit a short story to their new horror anthology DEAD BAIT II which is, obvio...

During our hike to find the summit of Buzzard Roost, we had to hike through the South Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Now, most people think of p...

"Mongo only pawn in game of life."

Spider-Man's creator, Steve Ditko , took his leave of the character and the company for which he'd concocted it with #38 of the Amaz...

One thing that I really dig about the Internet are web cams. You can find all kinds of them online. Some of my favorites feature views of pa...

I have to finish proof-reading the galleys for THE LIVING END today, so no time for any extensive essays. When I decided to collect the orig...

Sorry for the silences. Work has been a beast. I look forward to the day I can walk away from the daily grind of Federal employment. The gal...

The release of my zombie novel, THE LIVING END is just on the horizon. Here's the latest version of the cover. The book should be ready ...

Too tired from work to write much about our last hike. But I did want to mention that we hiked in to the South Mountains from a direction I...

I went hiking in the mountains today. The South Mountains, to be exact. Early on in the hike, I saw this track. Bird track. Huge. Enormous: ...

Like many people, I hate my job. Well...it's not the job itself that I fucking hate, but the folk in management. Pea-brains and sadists,...

To continue along the recent posts concerning Steve Ditko and my comic book collection, I'd like to post this image of my copy of the Am...

As I always do when I'm at Carole's mom's place, I walked out into the huge back yard to visit the two big hemlock trees that Ca...

I did really well all during the holiday season. I managed not to gain a single pound from November through the beginning of January. Then, ...