Nature Can Refesh and Renew Our Spirits
Since there are three Thunder Rocker's, I'll make it clear that your blogger today is Reggie. Let me get you caught up on what has occupied my time lately. For one, the great outdoors. My feet have kicked through trails covered with leaves turned to orange, yellow, rust, brown and green. I've sloshed through icy water in creeks and slugged my hiking boots through mud so thick I was afraid my

Sometimes...
So instead of writing these days I've been doing very important things. Like right now I'm eating Honey Bunches of Oats with a banana on top and later I'm heading to Panera and Books a Million. The bookstore is having a huge sale today so that's kind of writerly related, right?Let's see, the past few weeks I've studied a lot, shopped a lot, driven a lot, watched an awful lot of basketball games

Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dumb
You get Facebook, reconnecting, hooking up, and all. It's a social universe not difficult to understand. But if you Twitter you're in a whole different social galaxy. You might have checked it out and thought, what a waste. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb never contradicted each other.As a writer, my tweets are barely off the ground. I do know how to follow others and use the Tweets to my writing

Learned Something New
Aw, man. This might be a bit embarrassing, but what the hey. Have you ever yanked and pulled on a bottle of pop to free it from that plastic thingy that keeps the bottles together? I have twisted and pulled the bottle; stretched and fought the plastic. Most of the time I end up using kitchen shears to cut the %$#&& thing.This is my worst thing to do, when putting away groceries. Worse than

Cliche's Make Us Human- On Occasion
"Fast as lightning" "Look what the cat drug in" "Soft as a butterfly" or 'Sweet as pie"These are all cliche's, right? But don't we all have to describe scenes where something occurs 'fast as lightning' or a character might want to say to someone 'look what the cat drug in'? The old proverbial 'there's nothing new under the sun' gets tested when we search for a new way to describe in our