Author Archives: Gordon DeLand

Happy Valentine’s Day Today is that day some singles dread. I’m ‘single again’ and dread only the amount of sweets I see on sale tomorrow. I don’t need that temptation. And as for the ‘romance’ stuff… it looks too much … Continue reading →

Maybe that needs explaining. “Upstairs”, the sequel to Down Cellar, got put on a back burner when all the characters went AWOL from the Official Outline. They went on strike, because according to them, “that’s not the way the story … Continue reading →

A one minute story (takes just about a minute to read the whole thing) Thomasina? Sorry I missed you last night. Oh yeah… well it wasn’t exactly a date just coffee. I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to …my phone … Continue reading →

It’s not the thing we normally think of, to reduce our life scope. In moments of over-stimulation we cry for it but very soon we’re bored, feeling confined, or just unfulfilled. We want more. It’s a human thing, not to … Continue reading →

The first blog entry of the year is by my good friend Kenneth Cuccia. For the past ten years, Kenny has been both a sounding board and source of inspiration to me.  As a Middle School classroom teacher of writing, … Continue reading →

The Question You’ve asked the question, been asked the question. “How you do get better at writing?”  We keep asking and still the answer seems to elude us. Worse, the reason for the question haunts us. The doubts that the … Continue reading →