University of Iowa has the oldest and most prestigious creative writing program in America -- the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. U. of Iowa has over 40 Pulitzer prizes attributed to graduates and faculty according to Wikipedia. On a whim, I applied to an 8-week summer program put on by their...

Goodbye, 2007, you will be remembered fondly as a year of successes. This will be my last time at a terminal before the Big Show, the NYE party at the Colony. This will be the 11th year celebrating in the Steel City and the 10th at the Colony. That's a Decade of memories, good or ill, and of course...

12:30 I'm getting hit on, shamelessly. She's got the smile on main beam; and she's laughing at my casual riffage like it's vintage Saturday Night Live. And she's pretty, and clever, and I'd rather be talking to her than anyone else here at the conference. But, I don't take it any further, 'cause...