We're back to Peter and Jen, the early years. For the whole story, I suggest you start at the beginning (it's a quick read). But here's a bit of what's happened so far: Peter is married with children. What his wife, Jen, doesn't know is that Peter had a brief love affair with Eric when they were in their 20's [...]

We're back to Peter and Jen, when they first met at Stanford in the early '90s. If you really want to get all the down and dirty details, you should start at the beginning. But here's a bit of what's happened so far: Peter is married with children. What his wife doesn't know is that Peter had a brief [...]

Yesterday was my dog's first birthday. We actually thought it was this coming Monday (based on our best estimates), but our friend* who got a puppy from the same litter posted her dog's picture on Facebook and, well, oops. I'm guessing most people don't celebrate their dogs' birthdays. We're a little odd**. On the one [...]

We're catching up with "young" Eric again this week. Hopefully he wasn't permanently scarred by his experience in Thailand. If you really want to get all the down and dirty details, you should start at the beginning. But here's a bit of what's happened so far: Peter is married with children. What his wife doesn't know is [...]

So, we're on Part Eight of the Eric and Peter saga. If you want to catch up, you can start at the very beginning or find everything here under Fiction.  But here's a bit of what's happened so far: Peter and Jen (Wong) are married with two kids and living in Reno. What Jen doesn't know is [...]

The science fair was this week, and I've never been so happy to finish "projects that I'm not involved in." While it's lovely in theory to allow your child to conduct and then create a presentation of an entire project on his/her own, the practical execution of said theory never shakes out the way you [...]

So when everybody started freaking out over the Onion calling nine-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis the c-word, my thought process went something like this: Wow, stay classy. Maybe an intern was tweeting. What idiot would let an intern tweet during the Oscars? Somebody's getting the axe. They'll probably end up on that Katie Couric show. Or [...]

So I have to apologize to some of you for basically turning into a soft porn writer. But it turns out there are people who actually look forward to Fridays over here. So how can I say no to that?   Anyway, this is Part Seven of a story I’m working on for our Fearless [...]

This is Part Six of a story I’m working on for our Fearless Fiction Femmes Fatales group. If you want to catch up, here’s Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. Just to catch everybody up: Peter and Jen are married with two kids and living in Reno. What Jen doesn't know is that Peter had [...]