Red Room Where the Writers Are

My year begins with optimism for change for the better, and worry because the economy is deteriorating.

If you look at the global economy, we all can sit and shake our head and wonder why it's getting worse.  First the automotive company's then little business.

President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement this weekend of a massive top-down jobs and infrastructure program comes as no surprise, but I had a queasy feeling as I listened to him describe each

In the spring of 1990, I applied for the full time, tenured position that opened up at my college.  I knew that I would die if I didn't get the position.  I might shoot up like a rocket and explo

Mervyn's is going out of business, which made me very sad when I found on Friday.

On September 26, 2008, I was officially laid off from my job.  My ex-company decided to outsource the on-site computer support teams in North America.  That means about two dozen hard working men

It's my turn to give the departmental talk on jobs in creative writing, in a couple weeks.

I love to write. I wrote short stories when I was a child, typing them out on an old typewriter destined for the dump that my mom brought home from work.