I met him in a church we were attending. I’ll call him Bob Rice.  That’s not his real name, but it will do. From the first moment we met, it was clear that Bob wasn’t in good physical shape at all.  He was beyond middle-age, but many of his problems were not age-related.  We became…

Anyone with any experience in public speaking should find this little nightmare fascinating. I don’t get terrified easily.  There have been many moments of fear in my life, but sheer, stomach-churning, nausea-creating terror?  Not often.  I want to tell you about a moment of sheer terror that I experienced a number of years ago.  If…

A story taken from my book, Day of the Wolf. Years ago, a TV production company associated with MGM Studios contracted with me to help develop and produce a new television series.  It was a fairly large company run by three partners with several series on the air and several more in development. One of…

I started writing my first screenplay all the way back in 1975.  Being the paradigmatic “late bloomer,” at the ripe age of 30, with a beautiful wife and three kids, I was just finishing my undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University. On a whim, I took a history of film course and it changed my…