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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I’d like to tell you about a book I just finished reading, called Escape from Camp 14. It is written by Blaine Harden, who is an author and journalist for PBS Frontline and contributes to The Economist. I read about the book in a Wall Street Journal report and had to give it a read. …
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Like Rhe, the main character in my book Sudden Death, I learned to sail at an early age, skimming around Plymouth Harbor in a Turnabout, now called a Class 10. She was small, maneuverable, and came about on a dime (hence its name). Since that time, I’ve crewed on a Columbia 50 on the Great …
Dear Readers: This is my first time I’ve blogged, and right off the bat, I need to thank the writers in my critique groups for helping me to become a better writer and learn the practice of the art. There’s still a way to go, but I think I’m getting better. Special thanks to Bob, …
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