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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 77 entries, all of them here in full.
August 12, 2024 · 185 words
Your Career Can Be Yours!
Today Kathy strapped a bunch of wall calendars in some homemade shipping containers, with the intension of sending them off to TAMU special collections. Why wall calendars? Because they contain day-to-day tracking of my life for the last thirty-odd years. (Assuming of course that anyone in the future is interested in s
Read entry →July 31, 2024 · 177 words
Red Eyes
I didn’t sleep well last night because I’d had eye surgery that morning and had this lump of stuff pasted over my eye, but the lump of stuff came off this morning and I had a successful nap. Frankly I look terrifying. The sclera of my left eye is bright blood red, with the iris […]
Read entry →July 29, 2024 · 146 words
Cellophane
Tomorrow I’m going to have eye surgery to remove a cellophane pucker in my left eye. Go right ahead, make all the jokes you like. UPDATE: The eye surgery was painless and as pleasant as these things can ever be. Afterward I was wheeled out into Kathy’s car and the ride home, where I crashed […]
Read entry →July 21, 2024 · 679 words
Going to the Well
I’m not exactly good at walking nowadays, but I thought I’d manage well enough at riding around on the John Deere, so I headed to the tractor the other day with the intention of trimming the grass on our rancho and shortening the weeds. One of the tires had gone flat, but I knew it […]
Read entry →July 2, 2024 · 345 words
I Cannot Walk
Oh, I can lurch. And shuffle. And I can dodder and shamble. I’m very good at hobbling. I limp, and I’m getting to be an expert at tottering. But walk normally? Not so much. The last month hasn’t been good to me, locomotion-wise. My knees, both of them, have taken up collapsing, fortunately not at […]
Read entry →June 12, 2024 · 190 words
Blowing Up
Taos Toolbox is three-quarters done, and a fine Toolbox it is. Every one of the participants is talented, and every one can have some kind of writing career if they want one. Over the weekend I blew up my left knee, by walking in a straight line on a sidewalk. I would have fallen had […]
Read entry →May 23, 2024 · 67 words
We Conquer KU
The Accidental War, Fleet Elements, and Imperium Restored are now available (for free, I believe) on Kindle Unlimited through the end of June. Because it’s the publisher arranging this— as opposed to a mere mortal like myself— the books are also available as regular ebooks on Amazon, and are also available
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