June 16th has been a very busy day for me. Aside from publishing a poem with Yahoo and then later publishing a new article with Suite101, I have also done some work on the war-themed short story I have planned, which will also find its way to Yahoo. In fact, I plan on having it published by the end of June. So why am I up late and abusing coffee more than I should in order to stay awake? Well, simply put, once a writer truly gets into “the zone” of writing, he or she often finds it annoying to

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Recently, I had someone ask why I’m planning to move to the United Kingdom. Their sheer, morbid curiosity was very clear. It was also obvious that they would never dare such a venture, content to cower behind walls of comfort they built for themselves all their lives. My answer? I’m a wall-climber. I chip away at sections until I get fruitful results. I tear them down brick by brick. To assume I have no comfort zone is silly. I just have a strange drive to test that comfort zone and see how far I can go. Reckless? No, not really.

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There are situations in life that inspire you to do more than the norm. To push yourself beyond the boundaries you have set for yourself over years and decades of plain and simple living. For me, today was one of those times. Today, we said our final good-byes to my wonderful grandma Evelyn Patterson Morrow, who died on June 1, 2011 (which I also mentioned in the post for that day). It’s always hard to lose a family member, but for me the grandparents are the hardest of all. I guess you get used to having them in the world.

Continue readingA Final Good-bye and A Greater Resolve

Okay I know I said it would take up to June 3 to get the new layout online, but plans have a habit of not going how we planned them to go. In this case, that’s a good thing. With the new layout containing 20% more information consuming 60% less bandwidth, it’s been an amazing few months. Now that the site design is out there, I can concentrate on more pressing tasks, such as my writing. I have resumed work on my “High School Cast” project (the official name is under wraps until release) and I plan to have a

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To go with a shiny, new layout comes a shiny new blog (that, and the old blog has long over lived its usefulness to me and my writing career). This, like most blogs, is the home of my rants, raves and other random (bodacious) posts. Here’s the lowdown: I’m fun. I enjoy my work (thoroughly). I enjoy everything about everything I do. It doesn’t matter what I write about, writing is my passion If that means sometimes I am a little strange, I welcome it. In fact, I’ll share a little fact about me right now: I’m strange. Anyway, as

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