Current
Current thoughts of the day, what’s on my mind.
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Mountain Stream
In July I went to the mountain’s with the family for a vacation. Each morning I got up at 5 am to go fly fishing. I went early before anyone else was awake and I had the stream to myself. Even though a Starbucks was a five minute walk away, on the water there was Continue reading
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Those Were the Days
The Fourth of July usually is a day for BBQs and big gatherings. This year people in my family went all directions. My wife, daughter and I went to a mostly empty theater and watched a movie. We had no big BBQ. No one came over. Our only fireworks were a few sparkles in the Continue reading
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Trash Collector
My creative spirit weaves throughout my day. Often I act on it and sit down to write or go to my easel and paint. I see creative potential in many things. I see a pile of wood and imagine a sculpture. When I re-furbished my backyard deck, I didn’t see the left over wood as Continue reading
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Books
When I put my first book out, I didn’t know what to expect. I was exclusively focused on getting it into print. I didn’t put any thought into the next step. It was one of the most rewarding and exciting things to see my work in print form, as a book I could hold in Continue reading
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Spa
My music interests have changed over the years. I’m dating myself but I remember when the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan show. At the time, I thought they were silly, with their funny hair. But by the time I was a teenager, and they had broken up, I discovered them and became a fan. Continue reading
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Honeymoon
When my wife and I got married, we went to Hawaii for our honeymoon. We were fortunate to have help from our families to afford it. We left 27 below zero weather and arrived in Honolulu which was a balmy seventy plus. I remember the whole trip, but that temperature change sticks in my mind. Continue reading
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Repeating Myself
I almost started a blog about how working on a second edition of my book has kept me away from blogging, when I realized I already wrote on that topic. I caught myself about to repeat. In my mother’s later years, her kids (me included) would grow impatient with her frequent repeating of stories. My Continue reading
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Second Edition
I’ve been working on a second edition on Book One of my Escape From Desolation series. The manuscript is with the publisher and I hope to have it out by the end of June. The first edition had so many errors, that I eventually became embarrassed to promote it. It was hard at first to Continue reading
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Cicadas
Around where I live everyone is waiting for the big emergence of the 17 year cicadas. It’s part of life in this part of the Midwest. My first memory of the big event was high school. I would walk home from school and some sidewalks were completely covered with the little creatures. I had a Continue reading
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Tale of Two Cities
I’ve always been a fan of Dickens. In Great Expectations, I am still haunted by the story of a woman who never recovered from being jilted at the altar and how she passed her pain on to other generations. A Tale of Two Cities also made an impression on me, the dichotomy between two places, Continue reading
About Me
Indie author and self taught artist, creating for over fifty years, also a former corporate lawyer and systems manager … and other assorted vocations. Writing is my passion. I just released my first science fiction novel, Escape From Desolation, eBook and paperback. More information at my author page: http://escapefromdesolation.com
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