And a Happy New Year to us all! I find myself thinking the same thing at the start of this year that I thought at the start of 2021: “Thank goodness the madness of Covid-19 and the rest is finally over and we can have a normal year.” I can tell already that this is … Continue reading
I’m tired of not seeing people. All I see is masks. I went into a retail store recently. There were about a half dozen sales girls there to help out customers, and it was one of those times when I needed help (No – not the kind of help MY SIGNIFICANT ONE says I need … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went out as usual. Two of my stories returned from market and were sent back out within a day or so, so all of my available stories are out there. On a positive note, one of those stories (“Two Buttons to Eternity”) just earned me my FOURTH HONORABLE … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My blog entries were posted on schedule, and all available stories remain out to market. Other than my usual Indies Unlimited’s Thrifty Thursdays & Kindle Unlimited Fridays (they are not consistently updating their posts – Thursdays are a new one each week, while Kindle Unlimited Fridays is supposed to be a post … Continue reading
There’s a fellow blogger in Canada whose blog I follow at The Alchemist’s Studio. He makes raku pottery, and often his pictures are accompanied by a modernized telling of a story from mythology that ties into the raku piece. You should check it out. The reason I bring him up is because he also posts … Continue reading
I have some personal idiosyncrasies, one of which is a fairly frequent sensation while driving that I am about to be in a collision with a red-light runner, and I actually feel the sensation of blunt force head trauma that will be my doom. “Some Kind of Luck” is built around a cab-driver who has … Continue reading
I’ve talked a lot about how lucky I am – that I lead a charmed life. It isn’t that bad things don’t happen to me, but even when they do, I seem to luck my way into a better situation. A friend has taken to nicknaming me Domino, because things just seem to fall into … Continue reading
Being stuck in during shelter in place rules and self-quarantining, we’ve been watching a lot more television. One of the things that my SIGNIFICANT ONE and I noticed was how many end of the world movies seemed to be playing. Some featured pandemics that were far worse than the news that’s been pushed about Covid-19, … Continue reading
Quarantine. I wonder how many writers nowadays find their stories set in prison, or during some great cataclysm that makes people hole up in their basements? Do you? (If you’re just consuming content instead, try to stay away from networks that have decided now is the time to show plague marathons, or shows like A … Continue reading
“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” – Joni Mitchell (Yes, I know this isn’t what Joni was talking about – I am misappropriating her words for my own sad purposes. You shouldn’t pick on your elders…) My sense of smell became almost non-existent maybe fifteen … Continue reading
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