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Want a good writerly side job? You’re going to eat anyway. You’re going to write anyway. Get paid to do both! In the early 1990s, my wife showed me an advertisement in the largest newspaper in Maine. The newspaper was searching for a new anonymous restaurant critic, the old one having lasted just a short time. About five years later, having published 258 restaurant reviews and eaten 790 professional meals, I could understand why the previous critic dropped out. It’s no p

Back when I was a fundraiser and event planner, I used other website platforms to build sites for my non-profits or political campaigns....

Original post can be found on Outdoors Inspired by John Baranowski. I enjoy talking to hikers along the trail. Most hikers whether day,...

My daughter's sixteenth birthday was in November and she loves going to the Roanoke Pinball Museum with her dad, so we rented it for her...

I didn’t know why I wrote the novel Paradise until I had gained what I did gain on its last day of writing. Then I knew. My long...

When I wrote my latest novel, A Haunting on Dunbar Lane , I was enjoying life on the sunny coast of Florida, where we feast on grilled...