The Most Wonderful Time of the.....wait
Hello, Readers All, This is what greeted me as I rounded the corner this afternoon on my way home from my morning walk. And, yes, those are handcuffs...
Back to the Grind?
Hello, Readers All, The hot topic this week is that I interviewed for a part-time, temporary position as Editorial Assistant at another company that...
Of Ignored Rocks in Fields, Etc.
Hello, Readers All, There will be more about yesterday’s excursion out to see “a rock in a field”, but here’s the rock in question: Mile Marker One of the...
Irons and Fires
Hello, hello Readers All, Speaking of reading (as well as irons and fires, as in too many), I’m just finishing up my first reading of “The Master and...
Mea Culpa (but not really)
Hello, Readers All, Full disclosure, the piece I started several weeks ago to publish on Medium got shunted aside. This is to say that there is no new Medium...
I'm Baaaaack!
Hello, hello, Readers All. Welp, the laptop has been returned and the bedroom is back to being just a bedroom again. I’ll get my last mini-paycheck this week...
One Step Forward...
Hello, Readers All, As threatened or promised, I’m edging back into some online writing with five weeks left of being a worker among workers. In preparation...
Gearing up for Gearing Down
Hello there, Readers All, Welp, my days as a worker among workers are winding down. The rent job I’ve had for the past two years and ten months will...
Remember me?
Hello, Readers All, Greetings and how the hell are ya? Starting things out after a month's absence (roughly speaking) with some tooting of my own horn. Here...
Book Fairs, Bookstores, and Community
Hello, Readers All, Looks like I'm not exactly nailing this monthly newsletter business here, am I? I'm guessing no one's too fussed up about that and, hey,...
Looks Likd I've Become a Monthly
Hello, Readers All, Honest to Pete, I didn't intend this to become a monthly whatever it is but it's got its own ideas apparently and so here we are. On the...
Horse Latitudes and Other Woes
Hello, Readers All, First, gigantic big massive gratitude 'sploding all over the place to those who have bought copies of the "Plague Year", e-book and...
Bad Habits
Hello, Readers All, I wonder if I should can that salutation. It occurs to me that it destroys the illusion that this is a personal little note sent for your...
See? Can't Not Do It!
Hello, Readers All, This morning I finished rewriting the last two chapters of "Graceless"...again. I know that woman needs more work, but this woman needs a...
First in Weeks, Last in Year
Hello, Readers All, Insert gratuitous year-end sentiment here and accept my sincere hopes that you have sailed through the various treacheries and treasures...
Paperback Writer
Hello Readers All, File this under the heading of Tooting One's Own Horn. Again. We'll keep it short and sweet: I've ordered fifty copies of the paperback...
My Inner Capitalist
Hello, Readers All, It's that time of year! What time is that? The time when I resolutely shove the refrigerator against the door and slam the windows closed...
Still here, still at it
Hello, Readers All! It's that time of year...although, here in New York it's been that time of year since about a week before Halloween. Before I disappear...
ISBN: 9798223472643 - Oh, look! It's a book!
Hello, Readers All, I'm always trudging away in the background no matter how silent things appear to be on the surface. Formatting an e-book for the first...
This and That
How's that rewrite of "Graceless" coming along? Welp, it's not. My editor suggested (foolishly perhaps, not really know me) that I not rush into the rewrite....