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The Cumberland Times-News published it online, but not in print, July 15. Here's the link. Why am I just now thinking of it? Because ...

Thanks, everyone, for the supportive responses to my previous blog entry. In particular, Jeff Ford writes, "So when's the next co...

At the Launch Pad workshop this week, both N.K. Jemisin and J.V. Jones asked me where they could find my stories. As this question comes...

Our friend Charles N. Brown, editor and publisher of Locus , has died at age 72, Locus Online reports . Looking through my digital photos o...

"None of us is home until all of us are home." -- Sister Mary Scullion of Project HOME in Philadelphia, quoted in Parade

Cumberland Times-News columnist Maude McDaniel recently passed along an anecdote that she acknowledges sounds a lot like an urban legend : ...

Maryland novelist Gary Clites, a West Virginia University alumnus, tells an interesting story about the inspiration for his new thriller Se...

Did you know that President Obama commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots by declaring June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, an...

"To Lift a Nation," the Sept. 11 monument at the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in Emmittsburg, Md., was financed by an ...

Here are two June 24 news stories from our corner of Appalachia. In Westernport, several of the passengers in the pickup when its brakes fa...

This past week I had the honor of working with young fiction writers at the Savage Mountain Creative Writing Workshop , held each summer at ...

A costumed Betty Love, postmaster of Springfield, W.Va., is the subject of this strangely disturbing photo from today's Cumberland Time...

Saturday at Barnes & Noble in Roanoke, Va., I saw my first copies of Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 , a Roc paperback edited by Ellen Datlo...

From this recent CNN.com commentary by Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who was President Reagan's political director: The battle to b...

For those who haven't seen it yet, here's the best Onion article in some time. Among my favorite passages: "Fools!" sai...

I admire this without reservation .

She's not in one of my classes, but I had to brag: Frostburg State University track star Sumer Rohrs just won her third consecutive nat...

At his blog, anonymous Script Magazine contributor Mystery Man on Film has posted a link to a long-buried treasure for Indiana Jones fans:...

What caused the two separate booms that rattled Californians in early March? Not weather, an earthquake, a meteor or an aircraft , apparen...

Barry Johnson passes along this truly sick and twisted creation , which nevertheless is utterly Safe For Work.