Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Sod Murphy`s Law!

    More about Murphy’s law from a different perspective.

  • Watch out for Murphy’s Law when promoting a book

    Murphy’s Law says, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong,” and it did more than once.

  • An Alternative to a School Suspension or Expulsion

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: I walked to town this morning to see The Family, a film with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. But this post is not about The Family. It’s about a Contra Costa Times headline I saw halfway to the theater about Bay Area schools suspending suspensions and turning…

  • Did Calibre and/or Bing hijack my opening page on Google Chrome?

    Avoid Calibre’s free ebook management program—even if it is offered through CNET or from the source.

  • Clarifying Between Bullying and Critiquing Book Reviews

    Originally posted on Falls Into Writing: With the changes in the publishing world, more and more the reader is becoming king. Never has the reader had so much power in what becomes hot or not than now in the age of online reviews for writing. And with the rise in self-publishing where the gatekeeping is now directly in the hands…

  • A Summer Vacation from Writing—for the most part

    I decided to take some time away from the blades and drills to feed my writing beast a treat.

  • The Food Wars

    Who is the New York Post columnist Kyle Smith really working for?

  • Fixing the Self-Esteem Train Wreck

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The self-esteem generation may be fixing the cultural train wreck caused by the average Baby Boomer parent. But before I talk about how the Self-Esteem Generation—known as the Me, Me, Me people or the Millennials—are going to do this, I want to point out some of the damage the Baby Boomer…

  • Unknown Callers

    The caller ID window offered no identification or phone number. Should we shoot our phone?