Will someone solve a mystery for me? My 17th title, TRAILBLAZER: A Guide for Magnificent Misfits, will be out in early 2024 and I’m wondering how many of my usual readers will buy and read it. I wonder this because all I usually hear from my regulars is, “Are you going to write another […]
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For the past two days I’ve been walking again, after a month or so of letting it slide. As the days get shorter, colder and wetter here in the Pacific Northwest, I end up staying indoors more and doing less outdoor work and other useful exercise, so I bring my rower in from the
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… and I haven’t felt very Christmassy since before COVID, so this is a big f’g deal, as VP Biden said before a hot mic to POTUS Obama when the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed.(Now we just need to get Medicare for All and VP Harris can
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I’m taking an editing break this weekend. It won’t be easy because I want to find out what’s coming next in Brantner’s epic sci fi saga, but I NEED to. I can’t be at my best seven days a week for four weeks in a row. Editing is an exacting, painstaking process. If I
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I love misty mornings. And kitchen chickens… (even when I have to sweep and scrub the kitchen floor after they leave) And warm dens. And open windows. And all things merry and bright… It’s the hap-happiest time of the year!!! Gonna make some hot chocolate and toast and enjoy the
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Tonight when I tried posted the link to my “three red hens” blog post to my page on Facebook, I got this response: “Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can’t be edited.” Friends on Facebook have opted in to hear from me. What I
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Red chickens can be clueless, as I discovered tonight just as the sun was setting. I had to rescue three of them from the goat pasture. Now, to be fair, I have only started letting all the hens out of their hen pasture during the day recently (after they’ve laid their eggs every
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I am 98% finished with reconfiguring my office space. It feels better in here already. What a huge difference it makes to have a blue background behind the monitor instead of the brooding brown background that blocked my view of the blue walls. BEFORE: AFTER The little “angel doll” beside the desk is
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Next week I will have a reconfigured workspace. I’m itching to make it happen and cannot wait, but I have to because the new elements won’t be here until then. The upper part of my work desk (first image below) will go across the den to the top of my bookcase (second image below) where
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It’s hard to retain optimism. I read a lot of history books (am I a masochist?) so it has become obvious to me that we have been going backward as a genuine civil-ization for quite a while. I’ve just finished reading A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD by Chris Harman (a companion book
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