The last thing I want to do is stop. I don’t want to give up. The last place I want to go is the end of the line. The last thing I want to hear is the sound cut off. The last thing I want to see is the fading…

A love story. — I have been fascinated things. You know, existence. I have been studying things, observing things for as long as I can remember. Grass. Ants. An outhouse when I was four. Animals. Plants. The stars, the planets, galaxies, galaxy clusters and superclusters, quasars, pulsars, black holes, the nature of the big…

September 4, 2022: Texts to Osborn in Africa — Greeting Good morning, Osborn. I am up and I have finally finished my first coffee. I am half-dressed but haven’t yet showered. Today is Sunday, the second day in a holiday weekend, Monday being Labor Day, and I am drifting on the edge of depression. Dreams I had many dreams last night: …

Experience the magic — The Magic I am a storyteller. I share the lives of people in my universes so they can live in your mind, so you can live their lives with me. You can experience things from my imagination as if they were your own, and you can learn new things, and things in…

How I manage (or fail to manage) every day. Notes from a fellow sufferer — I am sitting at my desk, still in the middle of a depression cycle of my bipolar extremes. Two weeks filled with pushing through the lack of motivation cloud that this universe of depression is composed of. I work on my novels doing, what I call, administrative work: Writing about…

Writing a bog every day? — In my blogging journal on an undated page I was reading, I had written a comment, back in 2020, that made me toss my journal across the desk in anger. Now, two years later, I can see how the comments I used were self-fulfilling prophecies: “I don’t think I’m going…

We all have a common goal — What You Need To have a viral blog, I need a headline that sounds interesting and somehow promises to offer something of value to the reader. According to Tim Denning, anyway, that will, potentially, help a blog to go viral. Yet, ProBlogger promotes a slightly different message. (11 Tips to Create a Personal…

How Does a Person Accomplish a Novel-Writing Goal? I wrote a blog post in 2015 that I never published about obtaining a goal that I have sought after for most of my life and never accomplished. At the time I was working on a novel with a working title: My…