I am not a robot
Guess I picked the wrong time to try to be a writer. There’s a lot going on in the book world these days. Not only did the pandemic...
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Joe Coleman
Apr 24, 20232 min read
Vagabonder Reviews!
So, this happened. Resulting in these. And this! https://sfbook.com/vagabonder.htm What a whirlwind book tour, and I’m thrilled by the...
R. T. Coleman
Apr 16, 20233 min read
So, when is your next book coming out? And other hostilities.
Yes, I haven’t posted to my blog since September 2022. SEPTEMBER! Just before my novel Vagabonder debuted, and good grief. First, the...
R. T. Coleman
Sep 12, 20222 min read
On Doing Our Shitty Best...
“You can’t give up on us. Yes, in general, human beings are — shitty. But we do our shitty best.” A dear friend inspired these lines...
R. T. Coleman
Jul 22, 20222 min read
Still the One
Joe and I spent our anniversary this year apart. He’s on the road, I’m on the farm. Both of us working as hard as we can to put together...
R. T. Coleman
Jan 5, 20223 min read
Book Review: The Name of the Wind
It’s been a minute. Losing my brother Rick was the hardest thing I’ve experienced in my life. So I took a lot of time away. I muddled...
R. T. Coleman
Aug 29, 20213 min read
The Rickest Rick that ever Ricked
When we were kids, my brother Rick and I built a city in our back yard. The yard was filled with pine trees, and every fall, when they...
R. T. Coleman
Mar 14, 20213 min read
Everything Is As It Should Be
The Tao that can be told Is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named Is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real....
R. T. Coleman
Dec 31, 20203 min read
Things Fall Apart
Purple hull peas and ham hock warm in the slow cooker as the sweet scent of fresh-baked banana bread wafts through my tiny home. Sleeping...
R. T. Coleman
Mar 29, 20203 min read
My Quarantine Birthday
I’ve started and stopped this blog more times than I can count this week. No matter what I’ve written, it's seemed silly, to be honest....
R. T. Coleman
Mar 21, 20204 min read
Love in the Time of COVID-19
“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” ― Gabriel García Márquez,...
R. T. Coleman
Mar 9, 20203 min read
Me? An Angry Woman? Hell Yes.
There isn’t much more I can say about the unsatisfactory outcome of the Democratic primary, other than to note that I’m certainly not...
R. T. Coleman
Feb 29, 20205 min read
Gen X, Our Time Is, Like, Totally Now
At the beginning of this year, CNN aired a segment about the clash between the Boomer and Millennial generations. During that segment,...
R. T. Coleman
Oct 19, 20191 min read
Autumn At Last
Cool days. Cooler nights. A time for gratitude for the simple things in life. For pansies. For former students who still remember their...
R. T. Coleman
Sep 15, 20194 min read
Puppy Update
It’s been more than a month since we lost Poe and gained a posse. Time for an update. We’ve memorialized the best boy with a shrine of...
R. T. Coleman
Aug 31, 20195 min read
Book Review: Imperial Radch Trilogy
I just finished reading Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy. I have some...
R. T. Coleman
Aug 24, 20194 min read
Body Love
About two years ago, I made a serious commitment to yoga as a way to become better friends with my body. We haven't been getting along...
R. T. Coleman
Aug 17, 20196 min read
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.” ― John Irving "Today was the third day of my new job,...
R. T. Coleman
May 27, 20194 min read
Godspeed, Dr. Norb
On a bright spring day almost 30 years ago, I found myself walking up the steps outside McAlister Hall on the University of Central...
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