Category: Writing

To say I’m no expert on art is akin to saying I’m no heart surgeon. In other words…Duh. I took an art class at Merced College and remember not a...

There are well over 2300 days of school between your first day of kindergarten and graduation from high school. This doesn’t take into account if you attended pre-school and any...

Most people have one of two reactions to that second word in the title. Either they yawn in anticipation of total boredom, or they sigh in abject defeat to an...

You gotta hand it to the Ancients. They knew little about medicine, but they made up for it with ingenuous torture devices. And the names! The Brazen Bull. Chappy Chopper,...

Ever seen those clickbait ads/quizzes on Facebook or Yahoo? What kind of Thanksgiving dish are you? or We can guess your home state in ten questions! Maybe, These are the...

(In honor of James Thurber, creator of Walter Mitty.) I exercise a few times a week at the Joe Farmer Rec Center in Allen. It’s adequate–a full-court gym, two racquetball...

Flashback six years or so. It was late, I was tired, my mind was racing, and my body refused to rest. Replaying events from the day, from classes to Debate...

BY HURLS · MAY 12, 2023 Said to be the wisest of all the Greek Muses, Calliope inspired writers. Being cool Cats, we had a writing center at Wheeling High School called the...

Bruce, here, is Bruce Ballenger. He wrote an article entitled The Importance of Writing Badly, one of the guiding forces when I taught Creative Writing and, more importantly, when I...

Some people seem impressed when they discover I’ve published a book. To be clear, I’m extremely proud of Chasing Rainbows and Dogs that Won’t Hunt. I love the characters and...