What’s up with the camo bandage? I meant to post this earlier, like the day it happened, but I wrote the draft and left it. Finally getting back to it now. Anyway, March 6th was my six month oncology checkup. And it was a doozie…but in a good way. LastContinue Reading
For years, I have been working on a book I had originally titled “Shadyside.” A lot of years in fact. Over a decade probably. It’s come together quickly at times, and then I’ve hit snags where it sidelined my creativity (and, worse, enthusiasm) for years. Then I’d have an ideaContinue Reading
Do you use Facebook rather regularly? If you want to try a humbling and eye-opening experiment, give it up for at least two weeks. Even better, go a month or more if you have the strength. (Which becomes easier if you can make it to the two week mark.) SeeContinue Reading
A friend of mine, Jade Walker, gifted me The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society back…well, I don’t even know when. A while now. I finally read it and wow. Enchanted. Delighted. Smitten. This book is a marvel. At first I didn’t think I’d like it. It started with aContinue Reading
Soon after the Parkland shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, Everytown for Gun Safety tweeted that it’s the 18th school shooting of 2018. Which it is, according to their statistics. However, the Washington Post published a great article explaining why that number is wrong. AccordingContinue Reading