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In preparation for Emerald City Comicon earlier this month, I made a late (ok, night-before) decision to dress as Marshall Flinkman, the amazingly-talented-and-awkward-and-brilliant tech guy on the TV show Alias. Because EVERYTHING is online, I was sure a quick search would yield an easy-to-print name tag / ID card for my costume. I was wrong.…

I’ve been writing bits and pieces of things for most of my nearly 40 years.  Sketches and essays in random notebooks, notes files on computers and phones, and abandoned blogs (see here and here… oh, and here). But now it’s official. Amazon has deemed me an author. And so has a real-life book publisher, as they “proudly present”…

imagine a night… … when you might find that gravity doesn’t work quite as you expected. Imagine a Night, Robert Gonsalves

The best lessons about writing come from elementary school. Freedom to choose topics of interest. Help with grammar and punctuation, but not so much that it is annoying. When my son was in kindergarten  he came home with this gem. “If you get stuck when telling a story, just say, ‘and suddenly…’ Then something will pop in…

This is a 2010 article I wrote for Experience MHGS (now The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology), soon after moving from Columbia, Missouri to Seattle, Washington. Missouri is all I knew. I was born in Kansas City and raised in a nearby Mellencamp-style small town. Janelle and I met as Southern Baptist summer missionaries, married right after…