Done and Doing Fine
Yesterday I made my 96th blood donation, completing twelve gallons. For all the time I’ve been married, Kris has gone with me to hold my hand. She’s there to distract me and keep me from getting faint. After all these …
I wish I had Time to Read a Book… Oh, Look…
Work is killing my writing at the moment. If you look at the bottom, I only wrote about two hundred words this week. So I even have less time to read. But sometimes you need a break, and fortunately for …
An AFOL Weekend
Just the other day I was complaining to my wife that I felt in a rut with work, write, sleep, work, write, sleep, work, write, sleep. And now that two people have left the office at my job and the …
Zucczilla!
My wife works in homecare. One day one of her clients gave her a zucchini. One zucchini. The one pictured above. We named it Zucczilla. So the question became what to do with it. I went to www.allrecipes.com for some …
Critique Groups are a Coming, There’s Dancing Tonight
With the pandemic shutdown, some of our critique groups have gone on hiatus and others have disbanded. But the pandemic has also showed us new opportunities. Just as we have had successful Special Speaker Events and a whole Writers Conference …
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Step by Step
Back when Kris and I attended Quattro University, co-founder and entrepreneur Cheri Tree once said there is no such thing as a self-made millionaire. The true is same for writers. It starts with all those English teachers you had in …
Coming Soon to a Virtual of Festival of Books Near You.
As you may have heard, the L.A. Times Festival of Book will be virtual this year. https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ Beginning October 18th, it will go on for four weeks. The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society has had a booth there for years. …
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Burrrrgurrrs!!!
Okay, I’m not the kind of person that always posts pictures of the food they eat, but I have to make an exception. For the second week in a row, Baby’s Badass Burgers’ food truck stopped on my route home. …
What I’ve been reading: DC Superhero Girls at Metropolis High
Writer and educator Art Holcomb has said you should read ten times as much as you write. While I understand that from an educational perspective, I just don’t have the time. I’ve been reading “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles …
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What a Week I’m Having
Its been a busy week, but a great week. The West Coast Writers Conference was not only the weekend of Friday, August 7th through Sunday, August 9th, but went through the entire following week and ended Saturday, August 15th. That’s …