June Blog
stop getting sick and move onwards
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Rambling Thoughts
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Blog for February 2026
Feb 1st, 2025 Blog It has been quite a week in our little city and across our whole NC state. First, we got about 4 inches of ice and sleet. It refroze every night, as we had barely seen temps above freezing. Then this weekend, it snowed continuously for about 23 hours. My foot-l
Mid-month December blog
This mid-month blog is usually only for my Patreon group, along with many of the things I do. Please feel free to join me there for more interaction with my characters. That would be the ones I write and the ones who are in my membership. Just click here Last post of the year is
Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?
Daily prompt 11/11/25 I had the opportunity to attend the NY Metropolitan Opera for a production of Lulu by Alban Berg. It was awesome, the orchestra, singers, staging… all of it. Lulu is a tragedy that surpasses most others. Up from the sewers into the high-foulant world, then c
Blog October 2025
How is it October? What happened to the year? It feels lost in all of the chaos of the world. Will it ever calm down? I feel like I’m on a freight train barreling down a mountain pass, at full speed and no breaks. I just can’t stand it. Feeling like you are holding onto […]
Words, they are a changing
If everything is unprecedented, nothing is.
April 2025 Blog-lost hero
I want to tell you about a poignant death; it hit me hard this last month. A writer whom I admired. A writer
February 1st Blog
The year of the dragon is gone. It was my year, and boy did things fly high and fast. Power was brought back into my life. Drastic moves were made. My whole life changed yet again. Now we go into the year of the snake, it is time to come home to the ground to […]
November 2024 Blog
How is it November already? This blog is late yet again, for my Patreon peeps (they usually get this a week early). Yes, I know, I said this last month but real life happens. Right now, boxes are being packed, furniture is slowly disappearing, and everything feels disheveled. Luc
August Blog
“May you live in interesting times.” The curse of my lifetime. If I had a dime for every time someone said ‘your life has been so interesting, you should write a book.’ How about six? Okay, these books are not about my life, they’re Spec’s life. But right now, everyone can say th
July 2024 Blog
It’s July first, and life is a speeding rocket ride. The fireworks are an apropos analogy for my life right now. For me, it has been full of joy, wonder, excitement, fear, duck and cover, shock and so many more ooo’s and ahhhh’s. So, I have a lot of plans going forward. I will ne
My google search trouble
As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time asking the great oracle questions that might be a bit odd. Today was trying to find something similar to a sporran, as I just didn’t feel that was the right item to give the visual I wanted. too furry. As always I went to my […]
June 2024 Monthly Blog
Sometimes I get caught off guard by these monthly blogs. I turn around and it is the 30th. Keeping on my schedule is sometimes nearly impossible. Yes, I make my schedule so I should not complain, I need to fire my scheduler. YOU’RE FIRED! There now. I guess I told me. I still ne
May 2024 blog
I did something completely different this month. I wrote a quick short story. It took me longer to post it into the Kindle Vella program than it did to write it. Okay, not really but it sure did feel like it. I know nothing of this program, it seems like a good spot to put […]
Blog for April fools
Yeah, getting fooled is fun. We need to love good jokes and pranks. Creative and smart ones are always the best. It would be easy to get me this week as sleep has continued to be elusive. I’m becoming used to the emptiness and the quietness of the house without Sammy and Gandalf,
I’m done with February. March forward.
This month has been marred with death. My Betta fish died. Not a big deal, they do that a lot, and Flame must have been my 15th or so wet pet. I’ve even found another very pretty Betta to keep the tank lively. However, my beloved African Gray parrot was right on his fins. This […
Leaving a site. Not this one.
Okay, I have done my best to do NaNoWriMo this year. It’s not that I can’ t write enough on book three; even with being in the middle of editing book two. I’m almost done with that. I do want to finish it up soon. Maybe even in the next 4 days. That is over […]
The Domes up-date 9-1-23
It has been an exciting space week. It was great to see the Chandrayaan-3 made a successful landing in the southern region of the moon. The first photos are now on the web, and great to see. The Russians were not so successful. I hear and have read a lot of ha ha’s about that […]
The Domes update 8-1-23
Creativity verses Fantasy. Do I live in a fantasy world? Am I just overly creative? Where does imagination fit in? When does it become pathological? These are the questions that floated through my head this morning over tea. They have come and gone before, but for some reason tod
Mouth Ouchie
No one likes the dentist. I keep hearing this from people who have no clue as to my dental care in my past. Nor the PTSD that plagues me because of it. Most offices just classify it as a phobia – that is until they see me in action. We will get you in early […]
I’m too excited
I don’t want to do life. No, that is not a cry for help. I have no time to jump off a bridge. I just don’t want to do anything but work on the story. I don’t want to clean, walk, eat, or see people. I want to be left alone. Yet there are jobs, […]
No Food!
What food could you “not live without” The question is figurative. Cherries; coffee; lingonberries; zucchini? What would be the most difficult plant to give up? Potatoes, corn, sugar? Let me know in the comments, I really do want to know. If you were on your way to a distant plan
430am
Note: When I wrote this, I was very raw. I was right at the end of a panic attack when my brain was still not functioning. If you have ever had one, you know what I mean. It takes hours to get things ‘right’ again. The temptation to rewrite and clean it up is unbearable, […]
Count those ‘its’
Why are we so very concerned with word count? Really, it is because no one wants to read War and Peace. This isn’t a rant against Tolstoy. I really liked Anna Karenina. I gave W&P a good go at it for about 10 years. I finally gave up after it had been moved to the […]
Domes update for March 1st
It is March. It was a crazy February for the next book. Domes got a huge amount added to it. At this point, all of the parts and pieces are in place. All the extra notes have been removed, along with the stuff I mistakenly put in twice. Then there were the sections that I […]
Artist Temperament
I got a review? I got a review! On Amazon, I got a review…on my book. Things are kinda happening. I have now sold more books than I thought I would. I forced both my friends to buy 2 books, I thought that would be the end of it. I must have more friends, because […]
12 Steps of chicken buying recovery
Step 1: I admit that I am powerless over the cheap chicken in the meat case. So much so, that my life and those around me have become unmanageable. Step 2: I have come to believe that a power greater than ourselves known as beef or pork or even vegetables could restore me to sani
Wordfalls
Words wash down over the smoothed rocks of the mind. Splashing onto the page that exists no more. Old idioms die hard. Tapped keys with a rubbery feel, keeping tea from where it does not belong. To the hard drive, to the cloud. The new basin, where the waterfall of the words resi
Persons and mud
It’s raining again. The puppy whines from the other side of the gate that keeps his muddy feet in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter right now, even though I wipe his feet every time we come inside from attempted potties in the rain, there is mud everywhere. I have mopped two, someti