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Joan
We bought our house in September of 2013. It was kind of a fixer upper and mostly still is. Every year or two we spring for one of the big projects. Sometimes like the Ductless Air Conditioning they are planned and sometimes like the very expensive plumbing fix a few years ago they aren’t. The…
Read MoreJust like the Writer.
Last Saturday night I got all dressed up. I might have been singing along with Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” while my fingers fumbled with the shirt studs on my Tuxedo shirt. Not being James Bond, or the leader of Brass Band I don’t wear a tuxedo often. When I do they are usually rented.…
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This morning we woke up. The boys were given their Easter candy and my Long Suffering Wife put the finishing touches on the strawberry tart she made. The tart was fantastic. While we were in our post-breakfast state, before I sat down to write my Substack my Long Suffering Wife said. “Who’s the actor in…
Read MoreEaster Candy
I was in the local supermarket chain yesterday. I might have been humming “Lost in a Supermarket” by the Clash. I tend to think of that song or “Common People” by Pulp. I don’t know how many supermarket themed songs there are but those have to be the two best. I was doing the weekly…
Read MoreWriters
I have published six books, my seventh will be out in September. It is funny to think that to be considered a success in this profession you have to sell about a thousand copies per book. Yep, that’s it. It doesn’t seem like a lot especially when you consider the really successful names in the…
Read MoreSpring in New England
It’s been spring for a little over a week now. Spring is a magical time in Southern New England. For example, we’ve had a lot of rain, which is standard for early spring. We’ve had a few cold days and nights. A few sunny days that were almost t-shirt weather worthy. Even just today, it…
Read MoreLeft Coast Crime
I was in Denver for a convention last week. Not just any convention but Left Coast Crime, a crime fiction convention. In 2002 I had flown into Denver on my way to Fort Carson Colorado. I was on my way there not as a soldier but as a technical writer. I spent a few months…
Read MoreI’m a foodie
If you haven’t figured it out by now I am a bit of a foodie. I like to cook and I like to eat good food. I grew eating food that was always a little bit different from what my friends were eating. My mother and grandparents were from Ukraine and the Slavic diet was…
Read MoreIt’s been busy
It’s been a busy week. I’ve got a book coming out in a few weeks. We’ve updated the website to reflect that. There’s a whole bunch of promotional stuff that goes along with it. I just finished the copy edits on the new first book in the new series and then there’s all the life…
Read MoreAnticipation
It’s funny the things we look forward to. Tomorrow is Superbowl Sunday, I have a book coming out, and we are supposed to get a wikkid big snow storm for the first time in a few years. Most of America will be thinking about and looking forward to Superbowl and the Superbowl parties. I can’t…
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