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What happened to March?

Time flies when you’re having fun. (Even when you’re not, the corollary says, but that doesn’t apply to me.) I had been hoping to make The Big Announcement about my next book by now, but I’m still waiting on the … Continue reading

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I guess this is “doing better”

So, it’s only been five weeks since my last post, so I consider that an improvement over the roughly half-year gap in 2021. Where to begin? Ok, business. I have a short story called “The Lagrange Point” in the anthology … Continue reading

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Happy New Year

I became quite delinquent in updating my blog last year. I’m going to try to do better in 2022. I wonder how we would have reacted in March 2020 if we’d known that, two years later, we would still be … Continue reading

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2021 in Review – Part 4: Books

My sorriest list for 2021 is the one for the books I’ve read. I only managed to read 29 thus far (although I do hope to get one or two more in before the end of the year. A lot … Continue reading

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2021 in Review – Part 3: Movies

The last movie I saw in a theater was 1917 in January 2020, and I don’t expect that to change soon. We are perfectly content to enjoy new movies as they become available on streaming platforms. I know a lot … Continue reading

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2021 in Review – Part 2: TV/Streaming

Before I get into my overview of TV, I have an addition to make to my publication list for 2021. Today is publication day for the anthology Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 6, which contains my story “The … Continue reading

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2021 in Review – Part 1: Publications

It has been a long time since I posted to my blog. I keep intending to, but there are so many other shiny objects out there to occupy my waking hours, that I kept putting it off. As the end … Continue reading

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Moderna World

My wife and I received our second Moderna vaccine doses on Sunday morning. Out of an abundance of caution, I decided to take yesterday off from the day job, as I’d heard there was a strong possibility of side-effects on … Continue reading

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1.00 Years of Solitude

The last time we went to a restaurant was on March 12, 2020. We had pizza at Bellagreen, one of our favorite neighborhood establishments. We’d been out to eat three other times earlier that month. Since then, other than ordering … Continue reading

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Deep freeze

In a couple of weeks—on March 2nd, to be specific—Hard Case Crime will publish their third Stephen King novel, Later. Although King is generally thought of as a horror writer, he has written numerous crime short stories, novellas and novels, giving … Continue reading

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