For a while now, I’ve thought that the Honda Element was the world’s ugliest car. But I was wrong.
Recently, I saw the Toyota Scion XB and it makes the Element look so much better.
So here’s my Random Thought: Why did someone think that designing a car to look like a shoebox on wheels was a good idea?
This morning, I was walking Sprocket the Amazing Weasel Dog around the block when I heard what sounded like children laughing … in the trees. The sound came again. This time it sounded like a crow with too much trill. I looked up at the almost completely denuded maple tree and saw three green-cheeked parrots…
Last year, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced that they had developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. How might this affect modern medicine … or your next science fiction or horror story?
I read this story about how tadpoles become frogs and I love using it as an metaphor for how we should look at obstacles in our lives. I recently included this story in a speech I gave at the Toastmasters club and thought I’d share it with you.
In the song “She Bangs” — made famous by William Hung (poor Ricky Martin) — there is a couple of lines that go: She moves like a moth But she stings like a bee I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be described as moving like a moth. All the moths I’ve…
What a funny adjective to use to describe me. I don’t really think I “rock.” I’m much too ordinary for that. I’m a geek, a dork and sometimes even a fuddy duddy. So it always amuses me when someone tells me that I “rock.” I know its just a compliment, but it seems so out…
At this point, I’ve had several guests on The Genre Traveler Podcast who have collaborated on projects with another writer. These included a mother-son team, a horror writer, and a duo writing under a single pen name. I once collaborated on a very short story during a summer school class and remember that it was…