Category: Welcome

Woke up, checked my email, found a message from Imaginarium, the college lit mag that accepted “Shadow Pool” for publication in its second issue. It had been a while since I received the acceptance letter, and once again I had been wondering if the magazine still existed. This email contained the various changes suggested by…

As I may have mentioned, it’s been a bit of a banal day. I think the most excitement I had was trying to reconcile the numbers of people that I thought one unit had with the numbers it actually has. That, and telling the brand new Captain “Just agree with him,” referring to the Brigade…

Greetings from Kuwait, where the daily temperature today stands a good chance of breaking 110 … in the shade. Of course, this is the perfect time at which to switch out all the air conditioners in the building where I work. I think my fingertips are sweating. This is the Army most people don’t think…

…still working on my interview with Mike Lynch, which will be up later today. But my brain spit these two pieces out when I was trying to think of something else.   On Reading My Sister’s Obituary  Obituaries Leave out more than I can take in. The pixels parse, in awkward prose Our names that…

Earlier this year I posted a manifesto to my old blog, Burning Silver and Time, about how I was going to take this year and give myself permission to relax, to read whatever I wanted, to play whatever kind of music I wanted, to put less intellectual pressure on myself in the creative areas of my…

I have decided to apply to FSU to pursue studies in mathematics (pause to see if the incredibly unlikelihood that I would ever type those words somehow causes the probability machine to explode…) Drafted this up and thought I’d put it out there. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to send them my way.…

Sundays are the days I relax by running around like a dervish trying to get all the things done I’ve been meaning to do while I’m working 10-12 hour days during the week. And by that I mean I sit around thinking of all the things I should be doing while trying to summon the…

Welcome to the Infamous Scribbler Web Launch and Cover Reveal! Feel free to poke around, or stand by for the full tour. First up, why “Infamous Scribbler?” I’ve been writing all my life, and a good part of that time was spent with the AP Stylebook at my side. My first journalistic venture was a…