Wild Hearts, a new book by a kid.

Tom | April 23, 2010

Last year around Christmas I met this kid on Facebook. His name was Kody and he said he loved 8-Ball and The Kid, but that he had not yet read  The Woods of Bloody Mary. So I loaned him a copy. He spent the next 5 nights chatting with me on Facebook and listening to [...]

Just a walk in the woods.

Tom | April 17, 2010

After hearing from my attorney on Monday about my copyright infringement suit in St. Louis, he told me it could be 3 months down the road before we hear back from the appellate court judges. In the meantime, Kody and I ventured down to Gifford Farm today to walk through the obstacle course there in the woods [...]

All rise!

Tom | April 12, 2010

It seems like yesterday that my gifted student, Drew Norton, died in a fire in Vermont. I met Drew when he was a 12-year-old camper at Camp Kitaki, where he came to my anti-drug program, Kastleland, wearing a legalize marijuana T-shirt. Later, I became Drew’s mentor in the Gifted program where we worked on the Kastleland video script together. On the [...]