by Rob Diaz | Aug 2, 2013 | Travel, Vacation
Day Negative One of vacation. What a glorious day, indeed! It is the reason we spend all the time since the end of the last year’s vacation working too many hours and doing too many things with baseball or dance or soccer or swimming or band or scouts. It is the...
by Rob Diaz | Jul 31, 2013 | Real Life
My very first car was a 1980 Ford Escort station wagon. I bought it from my grandparents for $500 in 1988 and it served me well for the next 5 years, well into 1993. But as I graduated from college, the road grime, duct tape and metal clothes hangers which held the...
by Rob Diaz | Jul 31, 2013 | Real Life
In the middle of August 2006, we had solar panels installed on our home. Unlike what a lot of early-adopters of the residential solar panel systems. the purpose of our installation wasn’t to make money but to make electricity and lower our carbon footprint and impact...
by Rob Diaz | Jan 8, 2013 | Fiction, General Fiction, Prompted, Short Stories, Unedited
Written based on the Today’s Author Write Now! prompt on January 4, 2013, in which we are asked to write about an unnaturally foggy bay. For most people, silence is empty. I, however, have found silence to be full of stories – more stories, in fact, than the...
by Rob Diaz | Jan 2, 2013 | Edited, Real Life
Rus VanWestervelt, a writer, photographer, Creativity Coach and LifeStory Architect with whom I’ve worked at Write Anything, has put together an article featuring a number of fantastic links to blog posts written in the past year on the subject of creativity. ...