SHORTS, NOVELS, AND OTHER THINGS
With apologies to Brittany Spears: I just had another shoulder replacement. This is the consequence of my competitiveness – competitive swimming, tennis, field hockey, basketball – that lasted long after a normal person would have put some of these activities aside, mainly because I wanted to get better at each sport. But there is a …
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Below is an excerpt from a newsletter written by a Canadian plein air painter – Robert Genn. He writes two letters a week and sends it to a vast subscriber list, among them a friend of mine who is a plein air painter and lives in California. She finds people who talk constantly about their …
I’ve been walking back and forth in my pool to keep my body going while my little red blood cells regenerate after my recent shoulder surgery. They actually made an appearance right on schedule: fourth week, lots more energy. Since walking is not so great at raising the heart rate, I decided to jog. Good …
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Yes, you read that right. I’ve been walking in my pool. After my shoulder joint was rudely removed by a damned fine surgeon and replaced with a titanium replica that promises to outlast the rest of my body, I was told no swimming until the incision’s completely healed. Bummer. In addition, the machinations of the …
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Hello readers! Chapters 3-5 have now been added. Read on as Rhe delves deeper into the mystery of the body found on the soccer field. Enjoy! Read Chapter 3 now! 0 0
Autumn is here. I can tell from the spider webs. Going out onto our back deck each morning is now an adventure because their silky nets have been spun overnight and hang from our sun umbrellas. Spider silk is mainly composed of a protein similar to that in insect silk, the kind that the Japanese …
I don’t know how many people reading this have written something, anything, that requires rewrites. I am personally on my fourth or fifth (and hopefully the last) of Sudden Death and am finding the work very hard going. Sort of like slogging through mud. My beta readers did a fantastic job finding errors, crumbs misplaced …
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My left shoulder finally got to the point where the pain was occasionally unbearable, and my PA at the orthopedist’s office said it was time for an MRI (magnetic resonance image) to see what was going on. So at 9:00 sharp I showed up at the radiologist’s. It first had to be determined if any …
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This past week was a hard one. We had to have one of our dogs put down, a lovely, smiley, gentle soul named Rock (although she was a girl). She came to us as a puppy, an adorable little German Shepherd mix, and she quickly became the boon companion of our older dog, Sampson. Sampson …
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