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. …

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. …

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. …