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I may have shared this before, but here it is anyway. In high school there was this girl I really, really liked, but she had a boyfriend, so, we talked—a lot. I would lend her some science fiction and fantasy books to read and one day when she returned a paperback (A Spell for Chameleon […]

I just published Episode 60 of my ongoing Matthew Van Der Boot series! For those of you unfamiliar, the series is written in hypertext fiction, which is essentially a modern version of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books that were popular in the 80s. However, my story leans more toward YA Adventure/Romance and less toward […]

As the fourth born in my family, by the time I entered high school, my brother Wayne was a senior, my other brother Steven was a junior, and our oldest sister, Karen, had already graduated two years earlier. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the music I grew up with as a kid and […]

She wants to borrow one of your books? Really? Who knew that’s how your nerdy-ass would get a girl? Matthew’s little sister, Angie in Episode 41 of The Misadventures of Matthew Van Der Boot It’s a sad fact that teens today just don’t read as much as they did when I was their age, at […]

1982, my freshman year of high school, Rush was my band. I listened to every one of their albums and knew the lyrics to all of their songs – and not just popular titles like “Tom Sawyer,” “Spirit of the Radio,” or “Working Man,” but even the obscure ones like “Rivendell,” “Xanadu,” and “The Temples […]