The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “Time keeps on slippin’ sli...

Hilarious and depressing at the same time: we were cruising a big antiques fair that took up a few blocks of downtown Petaluma, Calif., this...

My day's clothing choice that started all the trouble. My wife Karen, who keeps track of such things, tells me today is both National So...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] For most of my early life, ...

I was improbably set up at the first table visitors encountered entering the museum's Great Hall. I'm holding a portfolio of some of...

HEY KIDS! Here's a fun thing some cartoonist pals and I will be doing at the Charles M. Schulz Museum next Saturday afternoon: a Cartoon...

I've been corresponding with a student doing a master's dissertation who asked me about the use of color in Mom's Cancer. Hones...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] The Prisoner is the best T...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] My biological father left m...

Karen and I with our homemade signs. Karen hand-lettered hers. I suggested she make the "P" stand for "Poopyhead" but sh...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I carefully observe my litt...

My friend Elaine messaged me this morning to say, "Your book is on TV!" And so it was, in a story by ABC's San Francisco affil...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Most stories about immortal...