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 …
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 …
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 …
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How it All Starts I start off my Thursday afternoon as I always do. I drop off my client to his therapist and hit the local Yogurtland to grab my favorite chocolate obsession and do some writing. I used to …
It started Saturday morning at 6:00 am. I was on kitchen staff at church making breakfast burritos for the woman’s conference the way we make them at the men’s monthly breakfasts. Hey, women need burritos, too. Luckily, I’m ¼ Mexican, …
Yesterday was our 33rd wedding anniversary. In past years we’ve taken a week-long trip to Baycon or Fanime in San Jose, then a stop in SLO (San Luis Obispo). Or a couple of times just a weekend in SLO. This …
It seems like we were just at the L. Ron. Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Annual Achievement Awards. Oh, yes, it was last October when they combined the 36th and 37th annual awards. Now it is back on …
After waiting two years, it finally arrived. Loscon 47: the year we were Fan Guests of Honor. We were very well treated. Normally we commute each day from home to the convention at the LAX Marriott, but the committee paid …
The con was fun. We are dead. details next week. Dennis Amador Cherry 88th blog completed. First Steampunk nov Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………………… But I did finally get my copy of Brandy June’s book, “Gold Spun”.
No One Answer to a Complicated Subject Last week, we went over the question of stress affecting one’s creative writing. Speaking for my own personal life experience (which is the only point of view I can offer our readers) I …