For the first time in my life I felt truly free and, I realized, for the first time ever there was no pain. And in that second of realization came another discovery, I had no body. It was scary, but I guess with no chemical feedback from a brain that was no longer there, my... Continue Reading →
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It’s Take Your Kid to Your Local Bookstore Week!
Okay, that's not actually the name of this celebration, it's really called Children's Book Week and it starts, today, Monday May 3 and runs through May 9. The event was first introduced in 1919 to encourage kids to read more and it's been going on ever since. This year, Every Child A Reader, the nonprofit... Continue Reading →
After Three Months Crate and Friends Say Goodbye to Comic Kingdom
The Last Disruptor's time on display at Comic Kingdom came to end this week after the iconic shop on Moana Lane allowed me to display the book for three months. I'm very grateful to Cody and the crew there for providing the space and exposure for a full-length, science fiction novel. It was fun to... Continue Reading →
Is This A Comedy I See Before Me
In 1999, I visited London and made a point of going to the Globe Theater, then open just two years. For those not familiar with it, it's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre rebuilt in Riverside London, near the original. It's a wonderful, open air theater and you can sit in gallery or stand with the Groundlings. I... Continue Reading →
Winning Wasn’t the Point
It's a lesson I didn't realize I'd even learned, that all those games with my friends, the touch football in the street, baseball in the cul de sac on Arrowhead, the basketball games at the park on Creek Crest, the hide-and-seek marathons on Folsom Drive, the Wiffle Ball home run derby's at Ben's house, none... Continue Reading →
More Video Readings to Come
I want to say thank you to everyone who watched the video of my reading from The Last Disruptor last week. I got some good feedback, so I'll do some more in the coming weeks. Probably no more than two a month, because, well, it took a lot of takes to get that one reading.... Continue Reading →
The Last Disruptor Virtual Reading in April
Hi and thanks for joining me in this video reading from The Last Disruptor, a science fiction novel for middle grade readers and their adults. I chose a passage that I think illustrates a key element of the story, which is friendship.The story does rely on elements of physics, chemistry and biology as the hero,... Continue Reading →
Some technical difficulties in first virtual reading
So I've recorded a virtual reading for The Last Disruptor, but encountered some technical difficulties in getting it up on the website. I'm working on them and will have a short clip up here later today and a link to the full reading on my Youtube site. Yes, I have one of them from my... Continue Reading →
The closing bell rang on Madoff but can we close out the things that made him?
I just posted something about Madoff and Ponzi schemes six days ago and then this morning I awoke to the news that Madoff had died at the age of 82. He spent the last 11 years in prison for operating a multi-decade $64 billion Ponzi scheme. His original sentence was for 150 years. The New... Continue Reading →
A Hyper-bad Idea at the Hyper Local Level
I'm not sure why I was thinking about this. Maybe it was because I was talking to some friends about how serious the world of kids baseball has gotten and maybe because I was just reading some news about the latest nonsense in corporate strategy in some publication, but this story popped into my head.... Continue Reading →
Robert Varnon -- R.D. Varnon 