My Favorite Coffee So Far
I like coffee. I like brands. As coffee is the most commoditized product on the planet, the brand becomes everything. Lately, I discovered a ton of cool and quirky coffee brands out there. So many so that I’m almost convinced that a great coffee brand may not even...
NEW RELEASE: The Ghost and The Coyote
Willie and Coy are together again. Kind of. Read the latest story in the Duck & Cover Saga now!
Fidgety Gadget Type Thing
I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. I didn’t set out to find a fidget toy. My goal is to fill a jewelry box with cool things my grandkids could find one...
Silver Lining Sweepstakes
Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors is now a decade old. To celebrate this milestone, we're giving away a bunch of great stuff. We'll be...
Old Friend. New Guts.
I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. Old Friend. New Guts. I think it’s a good idea to carry some means of starting a fire. What if there’s an emergency birthday...
Duck & Cover Anniversary Covers
I first published Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors 10 years ago this month. To celebrate, we're giving the whole Duck & Cover series a new look. Check out the new covers!
Coffee for Writers: Koffee Kult
I like coffee. I like brands. As coffee is the most commoditized product on the planet, the brand becomes everything. Lately, I discovered a ton of cool and quirky coffee brands out there. So many so that I’m almost convinced that a great coffee brand may not even...
Hemingway’s Boat’s Knife
I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. Damn, No Torpedoes If you want me to think twice about getting your weird-looking knife, naming it after Hemingway's boat...
Pocket Change: Ghost Fighter
I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. A pocket knife is good if you have to fight off a ninja or repel a Soviet proxy army from Cuba. But they are straight up...
Coffee for Writers: Café Grumpy
I like coffee. I like brands. As coffee is the most commoditized product on the planet, the brand becomes everything. Lately, I discovered a ton of cool and quirky coffee brands out there. So many so that I’m almost convinced that a great coffee brand may not even...
Pocket Change: Opinel No. 6
I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. Opinel No. 6 I like simple things that are made well. I’m not afraid of progress, but I don’t think that every new thing is...
What I’m Reading: Moving Pictures
My journey through the Discworld series has brought me here to Moving Pictures. The tenth book in the publishing order and the twelfth I've read. Since I went back and started at the beginning I can say they just keep getting better and better and I'm already finding...
Pocket Change: CRKT Piet and Kershaw Leek
Between our natural proclivity to routine and the frugality of trying to make it as a person who sells bear jokes for a living, I’ve fallen into some pretty stale habits and routines over the last ten years. True, much of it may be a matter of “if it ain’t broke” but...
The Road to 5K Begins
At the start of the year, I set two goals for myself. One was to write 5,000 words a day. The other was to walk 5 kilometers. I liked the symmetry. Here we are in February and I’m proud to say that I’ve been killing the walking goal. This surprises me as I hate...
The Read-along Giveaway: Week 2
The Benjamin Wallace Books Read-Along Giveaway This is the story of how you can win! We’ll be giving away 5 audiobook codes for a different book every Friday of February. This week, we're giving away 5 codes for Junkers. This is the tale of a blue-collar crew...
The Read-along Giveaway
I loved read-along records growing up. And I give them more credit for my literacy than I do Dick and Jane. Star Wars. Black Hole. Tron. Batman and the Justice League. I was thinking about these the other day and it inspired me. I had a lot of with the sweeps...
The Shattered Alliance (and other space stuff) Giveaway
Introducing the Shattered Alliance and Other Space Stuff Giveaway! Each week we’ll be giving away some Shattered Alliance Hell Drivers stickers and an audiobook code good for a download at Audible. That’s right, you’ll be able to cover your Trapper Keeper with...
Blowing up Boxing Day
I’m not going to belabor it, 2020 sucked. So, let’s end the year with a bang! I’m talking light the fuse, walk away and don’t even turn around when we blow it all the hell up kind of bang. Let’s make sure there’s nothing left of this miserable year. I’m not the only...
Stick This
We started a t-shirt and sticker company, my wife and me. There are some other things there as well, but if you asked me what Danger Bear Industries considers its specialty, I'd say t-shirts and stickers. And, me personally, I really like the stickers. Back somewhere...
America’s Favorite Hobo’s Bridge
I took a wrong turn the other day and ended up on the Boxcar Willie Memorial Overpass. It wasn't a particularly fancy overpass, which I guess is fitting. And there wasn't much to see. Just cars passing under the overpass and a surprising lack of trains. And there...