So this one is for my Mom. She gets impressed by this stuff. I stopped into the Academy of Country music yesterday for some brief business and as soon as I walked in it was, “Show Ben, show Ben!” Someone pulled out their (The ACM’s) magazine, highlighting the show I helped em with a few [...]

I’ve been rolling around a post about some of the very cool websites I read. Maybe soon. But for now, I just stumbled upon THIS and it’s awesome. Staley Out

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one. Always the teller must be at pains to devise [...]

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve told the story. I’ve never written about it. I don’t even think about it that much. Except lately. The events have dislodged from my subconscious and can now be found most every day bobbing at the forefront of my random waking brain activity. And [...]

I wrote this several years ago and performed it as a monologue in an acting class… It was so much fun to write that I decided to do a series of very short stories about my past, growing up in Alaska. This is the first of those stories. Many of them (including this one) will [...]