From The Knifebox JD note: This post originally appeared on The Knifebox more than five years ago. Since then, our dog Crash — The Greatest Dog Who Ever Lived — has slowed down quite a bit. He’s gone deaf (or he’s faking it pretty well). He’s prone to accidents. He’s lost a lot of weight.… Read More KB: The Pink Blankie
Welcome to JD Blogs. This is not my first attempt at a blog. I had one once, on blogger, Google’s blog platform. I called it The Knifebox. Named for a hangout we had as kids. The Knifebox, like I suspect of a lot of blogs, never quite made it. A lack of time and interest… Read More Back again
From The Knifebox Nov. 3, 2009 I have no idea, really, why I called this blog that. Pressure to come up with something before someone else grabbed the cool URL. Lack of imagination. Some unseated psychological desire to relate what I’m doing here to a vestige of my childhood. Probably the pressure. The knifebox was… Read More KB: About The Knifebox
From The Knifebox Feb. 3, 2010 The season debut of Lost was last night — The Final Season! — and I missed it. Didn’t catch a minute. See. It can be done. My television boycott, I am proud to report, is still alive. True, I’m not writing as much as I want to or as… Read More KB: The Shining, Part II
From The Knifebox Nov. 23, 2009 Stephen King came out with a book on writing a few years back — On Writing — and the main piece of advice I gleaned from it was to turn off the TV. He had other great tips, about building a good work area and closing the door and… Read More KB: The Shining Box
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