Humor
Reflections on the lighter side
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Bunker
As a writer, I need a special place to do my work, to get me in the right frame of mind. I once had a desk in a dark corner in my bedroom and I never got comfortable. When my son moved out, I turned his bedroom into my office, but I’m still not quite Continue reading
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Little Connections
I have a strange cartoon. It’s tiny and rests in a frame, barely 2×3, on a shelf in my office. It’s something my father gave me. It’s a man in a trench coat, holding a small fan and standing outside a crematorium. He has a sign the says “Ashes Scattered.” It’s a weird little thing Continue reading
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Generation Gap
As I market my books, I think I’m massively progressive by using Facebook to reach out to people. Using anything with a computer and the internet is a big deal for me. I say this because when I was young, there were no computers, no cell phones, no streaming services. If I wanted to see 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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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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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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Yipping Dog
We have a yipping dog, a Lhasa apso, and it sometimes drives me crazy. It’s one thing that she barks with a penetrating shrill that gets worse the longer she goes–but she is a terrible communicator. We had a Pug once. He barked too, but he always let us know, what he wanted. If he Continue reading
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Out of My Cave
I’ve been getting help with marketing my book. It’s amazing how much I didn’t know when I published my first book. I just finished a new blurb that will go on my back cover and into my metadata. I feel pretty good about it, and surprised myself. I didn’t think I could do it, but Continue reading
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Write To Market
I’ve been reading a book about marketing my books. One of the early themes: find out what is selling and write to that market. The author asks, “do you want to pursue your art or sell books?” It’s possible artistic and commercial interests overlap, but when they don’t, I must decide what is more important Continue reading
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Pesky Cat
We have a tortoise shell cat, who is cuddly and a lap cat. She can be fun, but she is also annoying. When she’s hungry, she lets us know it. She gets up high where she’s not supposed to be. She scratches unless we relent and get her food. Sometimes she goes up high and 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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