Road Trip: I'm going out of town for the weekend, leaving the wife and kids in the capable hands of my brother-in-law, the midshipman.

I'll be attending a writer's workshop put on by Dave Wolverton, author of a bunch of really good books, including the powerful and award-winning On My Way To Paradise, which Timothy Sandefur picked up for me while I was in Brazil.

He's best known by his pseudonym, David Farland, under which he wrote the Runelords books, which, as I've mentioned before, are going to be made into a movie this year.

Wish me luck and lots of learning . . .