So, what’s up in Kosmo’s world? I avoided the ladder I encountered one of my more interesting driving experiences this week.  As I was driving into work, an extension ladder suddenly appeared on the road in front of me.  The ladder was in the two right lanes (of three total lanes) and I was in [...]

A substantial portion of the readers from The Soap Boxers are from the midwest, but we also have other people spread out over quite a geographic area – not just in the United States and Canada, but spread out across Europe and Asia as well (with the occasional visitor from Australia or New Zealand spread [...]

My name is Dollar Bill. You can call me Bill. Like most of my family, I was born in the Philadelphia mint. I remember it like it was yesterday. At birth, I was attached to my siblings in a sheet. We were sliced apart and sent to a federal reserve bank. I was sent to [...]

The two big wars the US is involved in these days are getting less and less popular by the minute, thanks in part to the 24-7 news coverage modern technology brings us.  I personally was fine with our invasion of Afghanistan and very much against our invasion of Iraq, but that’s not the topic I’m [...]

I have written a few other articles on the topic of writing fiction. Today, I’ll spend our time together talking solely about the development of characters. Let them have a little fun Characters are the lifeblood of any story. If your characters are dull, your story will be uninteresting. Conversely, an interesting character can not [...]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! It only took 65 official starts but a major breakthrough victory occurred on the LPGA tour this weekend. Michelle Wie, won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico Wie has been one of the most talked about figures of all time in Women’s Professional golf. Heck she has been one of the most talked [...]

Guest writer Martin Kelly is participating in National Novel Writing Month.  NaNoWriMo pushes writers to write a fully contained 50,000 word novel (this equates to about 175 pages) in the course of just a month.  This is quite an aggressive goal - a bit too aggressive for Kosmo!  Martin shares his writing diary with us: 11/1 – [...]

I probably made my first purchase via the internet in about 1994. I’m sure the purchase for a few dollars worth of baseball cards. In the fifteen years since then, I have bought a multitude of things on the internet. Some things just seems to be best purchased over the internet – I’ve given some [...]

Soon, baseball’s free agents will be signing rich new deals. The Soap Boxers has assembled a panel of baseball fans to predict where the players will go. The panel consists of: Kosmo Gabe Tyndal, Casual Observer Science/Nature Writer BA, a fan who bleeds Cardinal red. Fulton Christopher, a fan who bleeds Cubbie blue. The top [...]

This was a losing entry in last Friday’s fiction contest at One Minute Writer..Cool site – check it out. Roger Fox consulted his watch by the light of the waxing moon. It was nearly time for the rendezvous. His brothers – Travis, Peter, and Zamphir – would be approaching from the other three directions. Roger [...]