I was working on the current edit of Grand Illusion and came across this sequence which I really forgot had existed.You see, these are the ramblings of a man discontented with his station. I concoct theories to make myself feel better. There must be someone out there worse off than me; there must be some world where it is me who is rich and powerful. But those are just the fairy-tales we tell ours

With the official announcement of Brady Hoke being hired as the defensive coordinator for the Ducks, here are some thoughts regarding the hire.The Hoke File:Brady Hoke at Michigan was not a very good coach. Managing all of the expectations of being the man at such a storied program while trying to change a culture which had already undergone a massive shift just three years prior proved a task to...

Part II: The nature of loveDavid Cuddyback and Livvy would meet is almost every potential world. Some worlds, most worlds, would be about their love. In others, Livvy would find the stranger from Utah quite distasteful. There were those odd worlds, infrequent though they were, in which one of the other two did not exist.There were worlds in which Livvy had allowed the frequent excursions with new...

Today I continued working on edit number three. As I sit and relax, just beginning a glass of wine, inspiration strikes. no. Not inspiration for book words. Inspiration for this post.Prior to the completion of Grand Illusion, the only reviews I had ever received were from some readers - readers who had enjoyed my sports writing work and were fond of what I had written. To that point, no reviews fr

So, back to work I go on Grand Illusion. I expected some to find the content complex and somewhat pretentious in spots. I am okay with that because there were certain intentions behind the concept of the book and the plot line, etc. which I knew would not be everyone's cup of tea. There are some books, the 900 page monsters that some people find just too pretentious, or too satirical, or too anyth

Okay, I will be honest here, writing does not replace exercise in the traditional sense, but it can serve as a great mental acuity exercise. At times, that takes the form of conceptual writing, taking some abstract idea and attempting to form it into a coherent structure of words that have some purpose.At other times, there is a structured story to tell, as in the sports writing I do, but the exer

“You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”This morning yet another day is upon us. No cataclysmic refusal of a sun to rise, no ridicule followed the performance of you

Livvy struggled near the end. Breathing labored. Fluid filling her lungs. Without a doctor or hospital, all of those normal courses of action to relieve pain were inaccessible for us, and this was the one time having taken to the dimness of our family cave seemed to be an act of selfishness more than survival. Had we stayed behind, with all of the crumbling society around us, we were close to the...

I am not big on resolutions. It seems rather odd to me to arbitrarily decide that some date on a calendar, a calendar which is arbitrary in itself, should somehow demarcate significant life changes. Maybe that is a factor of having lived a fairly healthy lifestyle most of my life, thereby not finding a major resolution necessary. But that is where I stand.Nonetheless, with this arbitrary timeline