Writers' Bloc

Here's the text of an ESPN commercial hyping the so-called College Football Playoff: No computers. No excuses. No more debate. This is...

The AP, my employer the last 32 years of my journalism career, also served as the springboard to one of the most enjoyable sidelights of my ...

There is one truly poignant chapter in the first half of "The Leather Man" _ Chapter 12, in which Ben Steinbrecher is forced to co...

Foreshadowing is a particularly important tool in a novel because it creates tension, a singularly good way to hold a reader's attention...

My intention when I began to write Chapter 27 of "The Leather Man" was to broaden the average reader's grasp of sports informa...

The first full weekend of college football offered ample opportunity to reflect on the demise of English as a beautiful language, potentiall...

Misdirection, a mainstay of offensive game planning, works in matrimonial mischief as well. Gloria Steinbrecher seems to have learned someth...