The Fies Files

One of my very favorite parts of the publishing process: checking proofs. These are pages of a book printed on the actual paper and press th...

Majestic Mount Hood. Karen and I are home from a very busy, beautiful long weekend in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge as guests of Hood Ri...

For the past couple of years, over on Facebook, I've written a series of posts titled "A Peek into the Intimate Intellectual Life o...

Don. Photo by Peter Maresca. My friend Don Rubin died last week, and it took me a few days to think of something fitting and good enough to ...

The talk I gave at CarrierCon pulled together bits of insights I've gleaned about what it takes to be a creative professional. How do yo...

I think my ride is here. I had a tremendous time speaking and indulging in CarrierCon aboard the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum today,...

  I emerge from the holiday to see that Wayne Thiebaud died at 101. I attended UC Davis between 1978-83, when Thiebaud was an active part of...

 As long as I've been blogging, I've been marking Christmas Eve with a rousing round of revelry from the man who, depending on the d...