Food

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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My Wife’s Second Husband

Last week’s blog was sort of a non-blog.  Too many things had happened that week, predominantly, the death of a close friend of ours, Frank J. Waller.  He was a friend and also Kris’ caregiving client.  So, we lost a friend and Kris lost her job.  Two traumas for the […]

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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 D.E.P. (Derail Every Plan) Method

I’m in two critique groups, one for novels and one for screenplays.  My novel group met yesterday and chapters 4 and 5 of my first steampunk novel were up. The great thing about being in a critique group is that, while all will comment on story structure and characters, different […]

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… it’s Seder-Day Night!

Happy Easter, everyone! Three days before we celebrated Easter, my church, Calvary Bible Church in Burbank, held a Seder, the traditional Jewish celebration of Passover.  Why celebrate Passover?  Because as Christians, it’s part of our heritage as well.  We have the Old Testament, Moses, the Ten Commandments, the exodus from […]

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Goals!

It’s the end of the first quarter of the year and time to see how I’m doing on my goals. SECOND STEAMPUNK SCREENPLAY: Finish editing through it: It stands at 163 pages at the moment.  I’d like to get it down to at least 143 pages, the length of the […]

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The Whovian’s Journey

THE ORDINARY WORLD As promised, here is a review of last week’s Gallifrey One 33 1/3, Long Live the Revolution.  As Sci Fi nerds, we have to escape the ordinary world every once in a while.  Our favorite fan get away is Gallifrey One.  Far too much for a full […]

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Off to a Good Start

It may be two months early to review my goals, but as I was marking my progress for the month, I realized how much I accomplished.  Some of it, like trying new recipes, I wasn’t even trying.  I just love trying new recipes I find. It’s important to break down […]

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I’m Out for Blood

Kris and I have been doing the Loscon blood drive for 32 years, but it’s been a long time since we were able to do another con like Worldcon or Westercon.  This year, Westercon will be in Anaheim and we have the opportunity to do their blood drive. We had […]

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