Steve hadn’t felt this excited in a long time. It reminded him of Christmas Eve as a child, the anticipation and joy building as Christmas morning neared. That was where the similarity ended, though. It was too hot to be Christmas; June in Alabama usually was. He wiped sweat from his brow as he shoveled a few more piles of [...]

One of my goals last year was to redesign the ChuckAllen.us site. Unfortunately, I didn’t get it done, at least not until now! Please take a look around and let me know what you think. The biggest change is that I moved from Drupal to WordPress. I’ll post later on why I chose to do that, but let me say [...]

Last year I began posting my “Ball Drop List”. See here for an explanation of why I call it that. Having a list was helpful for reminding me what I wanted to accomplish. Even though I didn’t complete everything on my list, I did achieve a lot. I also learned that some of my goals were not specific enough to [...]

In December of 2010 I participated in a project called 12 Days 2010. For the project different writers took one of the days from the “12 Days of Christmas” song and created a story around that theme. The stories could be any length and from any genre. The result was 2 stories for each day including humor, drama and horror.  [...]