Jan M. Flynn

I am usually fond of rain, especially when I don’t have to be out in it. Curling up in my favorite chair in front of the fireplace with a...

Back in November, I was furiously hammering at my keyboard every day, determined to achieve a crazy word count goal and bang out the...

Back in November, I was furiously hammering at my keyboard every day, determined to achieve a crazy word count goal and bang out the...

Cue Pink Floyd. The Wall already exists, my friends. Not between the USA and Mexico, but between us and us. It’s been building for some...

Cue Pink Floyd. The Wall already exists, my friends. Not between the USA and Mexico, but between us and us. It’s been building for some...

ABC News It’s been a week, hasn’t it? A 24/7 onslaught of outrage, of assaults on truth and reason, culminating in a flat-out ban on...

ABC News It’s been a week, hasn’t it? A 24/7 onslaught of outrage, of assaults on truth and reason, culminating in a flat-out ban on...

I was there, friends. The glow of Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington (and just about every other major city in the country, as well...

I was there, friends. The glow of Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington (and just about every other major city in the country, as well...

If you’re not feeling at least a little twitchy these days, you’ve either developed the equanimity of Yoda or you’re not paying...

If you’re not feeling at least a little twitchy these days, you’ve either developed the equanimity of Yoda or you’re not paying...

Does this date send a secret tickle up your spine? A ghost of a tingle?  Do you find yourself avoiding ladders, black cats, cracks in...

Does this date send a secret tickle up your spine? A ghost of a tingle?  Do you find yourself avoiding ladders, black cats, cracks in...

I’m camped out at Gate C3 at Sea Tac airport, staring out at a dreary, rain-spattered tarmac. And I feel just great. I’m on my way home...

I’m camped out at Gate C3 at Sea Tac airport, staring out at a dreary, rain-spattered tarmac. And I feel just great. I’m on my way home...

Okay at first I wasn’t going to say anything regarding the latest Let’s Bash Self-Publishing rant over at HuffPo, but (like all “real”...

Okay at first I wasn’t going to say anything regarding the latest Let’s Bash Self-Publishing rant over at HuffPo, but (like all “real”...

Bye-bye, 2016. A lot of folks were happy to see you go; you didn’t play very nice. And hello, 2017. We hope you behave yourself better...

Bye-bye, 2016. A lot of folks were happy to see you go; you didn’t play very nice. And hello, 2017. We hope you behave yourself better...

And now, dear reader, we come to that hazy sliver of time between Christmas and New Year’s. I have devoted nearly ten minutes of research...