I started this blog on August 21, 2012, with the release of my first book, Titan Encounter. Most of those posts are now in what I call the “Early Blog.” I’m gradually updating their format and bringing them into this new journal. Back then the sole purpose of the blog was to promote my books, but gradually that changed.
That’s how it started but, over the years, I’ve mused about other things that are important to me, such as my family, my farm, rural life, and occasionally about politics and country. However, I try to limit the politics in this journal. If you want to know more about my political leaning go to The Conservative Alternative.
On the last day of February, the temperature rose to about 54 degrees. That meant I could open the one active hive I had and perform a quick inspection of the bee colony. I knew this colony had survived, but I didn’t know how healthy they were. Dead bees littered the main entrance of the hive.
Read MoreI don’t yet have a book cover for Facing the Storm but, you can read chapter one of the exciting third book of the Solar Storms Saga by clicking on the link here.
In this series, several immense coronal mass ejections have hit the Earth, destroying most modern technologies. Panic, starvation, and chaos spread across the world. The series follows several families as they struggle to survive and restore some semblance of civilization.
Read MoreDue to the COVID virus, last year’s Southwest Washington Writers Conference had to be canceled. I helped organize and spoke at the first SWW Conference back in 2014, and so this was a disappointment. A few weeks ago, I heard that the sponsoring organization no longer wished to continue with the conference. This compounded my disappointment.
Read MoreI’m hopeful that the year 2021 will see the end of COVID, masks, and lockdowns. I want to do the simple things that many of us once did without a thought, go out to dinner, see a movie, and hear a live concert.
Every year, in December and early January, I plan out my professional goals. This year my main goal is to finish two books that are way past the deadline because of the vasculitis that hit me hard in late 2018. I wrote about that here.
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