May 4, 2009: The Spring issue of Third Coast is out and includes my award-winning essay, which award-winning writer and judge Patricia Hampl says sketches a "devastating picture of contemporary American culture," which proves once again that I'm a glass half-full sort of guy.

Sep. 18, 2008: If you can find the four embedded Engelbert Humperlinks on this website, you could win a classic Rex of Romance 8-track tape, "Last of the Romantics" which includes The Enge's hard to find remake of Debbie Boone's emotional hit, "You Light up my Life"!

May 15, 2008: I won the 2008 Third Coast Creative Nonfiction contest. The essay will appear in the Spring 2009 issue.

Mar. 14, 2008: "The Absence or Addition of Fish," from Cul De Sac, appears in March's Word Riot.

Oct. 1, 2007: Read "Peckers" in Night Train and "Storage" in The Rake.