If you just glanced at the title of this post you might think I am about to sing my own praises. I am not. For a change. Instead, I am thinking about my grandfather. No family gathering is complete without everyone quoting down to hear tales of times past. As the son of sharecroppers and … More Born Story Teller
What do you do on January 2nd? You could spend much needed time working on editing your second novel. But, if your son is being watched by your mother, your wife is available and the weather is hot enough to be comfortable in a t-shirt you go canoeing. Rika and I piled into our little … More Canoeing
Still at my parents house. Spent the morning looking after my son. The two of us took a long walk together and before the end of it he fell asleep. Now he’s awake and playing with his mother while I sit on the back porch sipping tea and writing this. I can’t help but take … More Resolutions
I sit down to write this and realize that where I live it is already 2017. Currently I am visiting my parents and the world is still a year behind. Around my home New Years means lots of watching football and in between singing songs and walking around the neighborhood I’ve managed to introduce my … More The First Yet Again
Feel ever so slightly like an accidental jerk. I need to buy apples for work so I stop off at a nearby 7/11. It’s one of those slightly fancy ones that sell fruit. They have two baskets of red apples. Fuji apples for 150 yen and a type I’m unfamiliar with for 100 yen. Their … More Adventures in Apple Buying
My latest project, a sequel to Deadly Troubadours, has finished its rough draft and first pass editing stage. It is now out into the world of beta-readers. I’m resisting the urge to rip it open and live inside it. That’s what I’ve been doing since March, except for my time at camp. I can’t decide … More A Break from the Book
When I first published Deadly Troubadours I checked for new reviews a couple times a day. Slowly that urge to seek validation lessened to once a day and then, eventually, once a week. Now I check Goodreads maybe once every two weeks and then usually I’m procrastinating. Today I opened up my Goodreads page and, … More Win Some, Lose Some
Once more I am off on another camp adventure. It’ll be a little like returning home after spending four weeks at the site over the summer. Since this is a shorter camp with much smaller numbers it will also have a very different feel. I’m hoping it will pack the same fun punch but will … More 3 Days in the Mountains
One of my favorite podcasts is Star Wars Minute. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it is a podcast that watches a single minute of a Star Wars movie and then discusses it. They started with Star Wars, continued throughout the original trilogy and just finished the Phantom Menace this past spring. … More Internet Dreams: Star Wars Minute
I’m making use of my summer break to finish the long neglected podcast Reading Deadly Troubadours. For the longest time it has been haunting me, reminding me that it is a project yet unfinished. I kept meaning to make progress on it, but when time arose other concerns came off as more pressing. Now I … More Reading Deadly Troubadours Returns
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