Every week starts and ends the same way. Work all day, sleep, school all day, sleep, work all day, sleep, school all day, sleep, work all day, sleep... In the bits and pieces of "spare" time it's easy to sink in on the couch and watch TV. When I start…
Why I love Tarzan...
I love Disney's Tarzan. When it came out in the theater back in 1999, my friends and I saw it three times! There was something about the swinging, intense hero... searching for himself by finding others just like him. After a series of less-than-Disney calliber flicks, it was refreshing to…
Marriage Questions
Jon showed up at my parents' door on a week night when I was away at Davis. He had notes in hand, a smile on his face. The moment had come. He sat in the living room with my folks to ask their blessing before he asked me to marry…
Amanda Eyre Ward
I have an author recommendation. And no, she's not one the authors I am assigned to read in my "boring" English classes at school. Amanda Eyre Ward was someone I'd never heard of until I walked into Barnes and Noble intending to buy another quick read late this summer. Her…
Happy Birthday, Dad!
Tonight we gathered at my parents' house to celebrate Mark Edward Pancoast's 48th birthday (Did you hear that, Ted? 48. Not 50. Great card, though.) Anyway, it was a fun-filled night. After all, it's not every day that a man over the age of 40 gets an IPod for his…
Witching Hour
Unholy whispers swivel through the air I hear them, I hear them. Ghosts and spirits whisk in the shadows, studying me. They scrape in the gutters with the dry, dead leaves. It's time to lock my windows, my doors, to crouch on the floor, and look up at the coal-black…
The Halloween Party Mystery
"How would you like to go to a party, Frank?" Frank Hardy glanced up at his attractive, eighteen-year-old girlfriend and smiled. "Nancy, you know I never stay home from a party." With a toss of her red hair, Nancy pulled the invitation from her pocket and said, "I'm glad to…
Pink Ribbons
Breast cancer doesn't just affect Women. in the U.S. alone two-hundred thousand women will be Diagnosed with breast cancer this year and nearly forty-thousand will Die. Sadly they won't be the only casualties consider the families and friends who Survive them. October is Breat Cancer Awareness Month. Whether you…