Now that my list of tasks has been completed, I can turn to blogging about my work-in-progress now forthcoming pandemic-themed novel. I hav...

As we approach that day of reckoning - the most dreaded day of the year for many people - perhaps it's of some comfort to realize that i...

Welcome to the Year of the Tiger in the Lunar / Chinese calendar!   It promises to be a whole lot better than that awful Rat year we went t...

Greetings!   Welcome to the last blog post of this year , a not so prestigious milestone in a year of diminishing blog posts. I've been ...

Most novels cover a certain span of time, and we see characters develop over that timeline, regardless of flashbacks or foreshadowing. Some...

As Ferris Bueller once said: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Or, i...

Finally! Finally I see some signs of autumn emerging from the caustic heat of summer from which I've hidden for nearly five months. Thi...

The past several summers I have provided you with a recommended reading list. Of course the entries I recommend are from my own shelf. Why ...