Thom on May 4th, 2012

Unfortunately it’s not my interview with Joss Whedon, It’s Forbes.com‘s, but it’s good. It’s insightful. I opens up Whedon some more as a person and artist. Here’s a particularly interesting tidbit: You were a go-getter from a pretty young age. Why is helplessness something that resonates so strongly for you? I guess because I grew [...]

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Thom on May 3rd, 2012

It’s easy to take so many things for granted. At the house where we used to live in Idaho we had several different kinds of birds regularly visiting our yard, ducks that hung arround the neighborhood, squirrels that became familiar faces, and even neighbors cats (another matter altogether). Some of them took time to attract [...]

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Thom on May 2nd, 2012

Tonight was the third game of the season for the baseball team I coach. I’m still not quite sure what to make of it all. Our schedule only allowed for one practice unless we want to hold some on our own (and find a place to hold them, since every park is full up with [...]

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This book was a gift from my father-in-law while he was visiting with us, and a welcome addition to my library. On the surface it’s a frank memoir of one man’s experience in taking command of a bomber group during WWII and his subsequent year service during some of the most furious months of fighting [...]

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Thom on April 30th, 2012

Feedback on my novel is beginning to come in from my brave set of readers. Thank you all, it is greatly appreciated. (I’m still taking feedback from those I’ve yet to hear from, btw). In the mean time, I’ve been going back and fleshing out the background information for the next pass. I’m discovering something [...]

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Thom on April 27th, 2012

Bill Cosby tells this joke: I said to a guy, “Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful,” and he said, “Because it intensifies your personality.” I said, “Yes, but what if you’re an a**hole?” Sometimes I wonder if the same can be said of change. This past week they announced [...]

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Thom on April 26th, 2012

There are certain songs I shouldn’t listen to. Not because they are bad songs–quite the contrary. There are just some songs that have such an impact on me that I really shouldn’t listen to them unless I have a few minutes to put myself back together again afterward. Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings is one. [...]

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This is the third of the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, and he hasn’t slowed down. If anything he keeps getting better, building a more complex plot, continuing to expand the reach of the story, and adding in more and more characters. The series is supposedly mid-grade children’s fiction (ca. 8-14 years), but the sheer [...]

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Thom on April 24th, 2012

Last week we took in a Salt Lake Bees game as a family to celebrate the boys’ birthdays. Before we moved to the Salt Lake area we were starting to make a habit of taking in a few Boise Hawks games every year. Now that we’re settled here in Utah and the new season has [...]

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Thom on April 23rd, 2012

Over the weekend our family had an experience that was unusual. But in retrospect, it shouldn’t have been. It’s a sign that things have changed, and not for the better. We do a lot of practicing for sports in our yard at home. We have a good-sized yard, but it’s not always big enough to [...]

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