Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

The Plano Balloon Festival took place this weekend, and unlike last year's Elmer Fuddlike weather ( "Awise storms! North winds bwo...

Maxie Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Schuyler and I were discussing our impending trip to New York City (impending as in &quo...

At play with the wolf cub Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . We were watching a pair of documentaries on television about the wor...

Monument in Lights, 2/02 Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I was channel surfing this morning and came across MSNBC's replay...

Our first artistic collaboration Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . When Schuyler gets handed school projects that are beyond the...

The book release it still five months away, but I got my first press since the Publishers Weekly announcement a year ago. It felt sort of f...

Do you remember in the scary and tumultuous days following September 11, 2001, when news sites like CNN.com were so busy that the servers we...

Schuyler at the airport Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I'm not going to set this up with a lot of commentary. I will sim...

On many of the writer sites I visit, I have been informed that not much goes on in publishing during the month of August. I can believe it....

Homework Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Schuyler started school this week. Second grade, believe it or not, which is the app...

Schuyler works the clay Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I received an email the other day, a very polite and warm email, to be...

So this is really flattering. As is this , once I looked up what it actually meant. But this ? That's just sad. Anyway, thanks to whoe...

I've been wanting to show this to everybody for a long time, like a little kid with a barely-contained secret, ever since I got the prel...

DONE. Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I would like to officially record the following: At exactly 1:27am on August 17, 2007, e...

Pilgrim Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . Schuyler loves the new. She loves to travel and meet new people and "wow..."...

It looks like someone had a better Monday than most of us . I know Omar has indicated that he doesn't intend to write a lot about life ...

Look what I got in the mail. Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . I have a secret for you. I have been reading the same book over ...

We went on a trip this week out to rural East Texas to see a cousin of mine who was in town from Washington, D.C. to visit with her family. ...

Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances...

Red Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob . It's been a strange week in RobLand. My legal review with the very nice attorney repre...