Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Kerry & friend Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . My friend Kerry Max Cook's book, Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing M...

Two quick operational notes: 1) Apple's iWeb application makes pretty websites, by golly, so I've been using it for my other nonblo...

Martin Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . A few weeks ago, we took Schuyler to the Dallas Museum of Art. She had a good time loo...

Oh, good lord... Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I was making some minor but detailed changes to a photograph today, the one I...

Speaking of music I like, NPR is featuring Andrew Bird on their website. Specifically, they're focusing on a song from his new album, ...

The flu sucks. Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Well, my weekend plans have changed slightly. She seemed absolutely fine when s...

(Originally posted at SCHUYLER'S MONSTER .) When Wired writer and first-time novelist James Bernard Frost didn't care for the cover ...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I know I've been quiet lately. I suspect that's not going to change any time soon. Wa...

Why I am a writer, not an artist. Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I drew a bee, upon Schuyler's instructions. I believe t...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . (At lunch, Dallas Museum of Art cafe) Julie: (Splitting a pepperoni and mushroom pizza with S...

Well, crap. Molly Ivins has died, after a long battle with breast cancer. Following as it does the death of Ann Richards, Molly's passin...

I don't have anything in particular to say about this, other than it makes me think a great deal about what goes on inside the minds of ...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . This time, Schuyler tries her hand at fiction. I say fiction because really, outside of a pet...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . A funny thing happened when I got to the end of my book. I wanted to keep writing. During the...

Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Schuyler loves mermaids. If you ask her, she'll tell you that she's a mermaid. We we...

Schuyler (b&w) Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . This was sent home by Schuyler's teacher, exactly as it was printed off...

I was starting to get a little twitchy, editing and re-editing, adding little bits and generally obsessing over the manuscript. When I fini...

Schuyler Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . We had our monthly AAC Parents Meeting last night at Schuyler's school. It's...

Sometimes it's easy to feel like Schuyler is the only kid in the world with her particular monster. Statistically, that's almost tr...