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I'm forced to deal with two companies that routinely rank lower in public polling than any of the military industrial companies (also Twitter!): Comcast and Verizon. The only company to provide a signal for my neighborhood is Verizon Wireless, and it sometimes reaches...

I started using my current 33.8 ounces of shampoo on July 11, 2019. Today, I had to buy another bottle because I'm perilously close to running out. I was hoping to get four years out of it, but I probably only have a month or so left. Coincidentally, that will be...

What a long strange it's been, to steal a line from the Grateful Dead. I had never dreamt of being an author, then in 2017, as a way to work through my grief of my mother dying, I began writing. Actually publishing a book seemed too daunting, but I kept my head down...

Last weekend (April 22-23, 2023) I attended my first RavenCon. When I spoke with other authors at comic cons, this one was always mentioned with a sort of reverence. It takes place practically in my backyard and I've never gone. That all changed this year when I was a...

I have hit the proverbial wall. The first draft is always the hardest part of writing for me. The next book in my Protectors of Pretanni series, Desperate Dispatches has become problematic. I've written 2.5 of the four novellas for the book and I can go no further at...

My very good friend, editor and fellow writer, Rosaire Bushey and I are going to start our very own Booktube channel, Bald and Balding. We plan on debuting in early summer. It's something which no one was asking for, but that means there's no expectations, so we...

This coming weekend, April 21st - 23rd, 2023) I will be attending RavenCon 16 in Richmond VA. This con is a little different than the rest that I've tried. I get in free, and all I have to do is give intelligent(?) opinions on several different topics. Specifically,...

Note: I enjoy being around weird people, in fact I consider myself one of them. But, this is the internet so please remember that I thought this was funny. Unexpected, awkward answers almost always are. Please follow my lead. No one needs to be mad on my behalf. I've...

My eleven-year-old pup, Calliope - who will happily eat just about anything that can fit in her mouth - and I received some horrible news yesterday. Calliope has a golf ball sized tumor in her mouth, and this information is not going down well at all. She's not in any...

I'm going to test out that saying this month. While I was setting up four tests a couple weeks ago, I set my plastic beakers on the stirrer/hotplates to mix the ingredients together. It seems that on the last one, I turned on the heat rather than the stirrer. (Oops!)...

I joined a new (to me) book sale this April 1-3 and the results made me do a double take (it being over April's Fools day and all). In all, my book was selected 364 times, from 11 different countries (see map). Narratess has indie book sales ever April and August. You...

There I was, leaving the gas station with my gourmet Subway sandwich in tow, when a guy in his mid to late twenties runs the last four steps to open the door for me. Why is this happening? He should only do that for old people and at 52, I'm not old... I kept my...