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What Did She do?

What she did was have a hiatal hernia that needed repair.  That’s a hernia (reminds me of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Ow1nlafOg ) in her diaphragm.  Her stomach and pancreas were already pushing their way up into her left lung area.  The danger was if part of her intestine got caught up […]

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Set Sail for One Piece

I’ve been a One Piece fan for years.  Maybe not as long as it has been around, it has over 1,050 episodes, but at least for twelve or thirteen years when it started airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block.  Kris and I recently watched the first of eight live-action episodes […]

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Back to the Pond

  Considering Kris is writing her novels, “The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles”, it’s not surprising that we ventured off to CSUN (California State University Northridge) to see dragonflies.  CSUN has a meandering stream that starts at a man-made waterfall and ends in a duck pond.  And for you Whovians, yes, we […]

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60 Years of the Captain?

60 Years?  How can that be?  I remember when I was little, we lived in the city of Bell, California.  One day we got a small box of cereal in the mail.  You know, one of those boxes that come in nine or ten variety packs at the grocery store? […]

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Pizza!  Pizza!

Yesterday Kris and I went to Redlands to visit our niece, Annie.  She recently finished her dental residency at the V.A. and will soon be starting a new job out there.  For those of you who are not familiar, Redlands is east of Los Angeles.  It takes us about two […]

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What a Week I’m Having

It’s been a tough week+.  Among several things, losing a friend on Tuesday, Frank Waller, and burying him today. More details next week. Dennis   174th blog (if you can call it that) completed. First Steampunk novel:  74406 words.  ß Past 74,000.  Goal:  80,000. Second Steampunk novel: 783 words. Second […]

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The Three Worst Ways to Lose Weight

If you follow my quarterly goal reviews, you know one of my goals is to lose weight.  A pound a month until I’m down to 190 pounds at the end of the year.  I generally just watch what I eat during the week and ease up to enjoy the weekends.  […]

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The Changing Face of Television

The way we watch television has changed a lot, even in the past two or three years.  That’s pretty much what the writer’s strike is all about.  But that’s not what I’m talking about here.  I’m talking about TV from the consumers’ end. Growing up in Los Angeles, we had […]

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Second Quarter 2023 GOALS Check

We’re halfway through the year and it’s time to see how I’m doing on my goals.  Below is my full list, but let’s do a quick overview first. WRITING:  Goals 1 – 3.  This is a bit tricky to determine how I’m doing.  Some of them I’ve completed.  But the […]

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Letting Music Shape the World of The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles

Writing is such an individual journey with so many individual styles.  Take music, for example.  When I write, I need quiet.  Music is too distracting for me.  Music may change moods in the middle when I need to concentrate on one mood for my character.  Or it may stay in […]

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