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Two classical music recommendations
The first one I discovered on Radio Swiss Classical (which if you haven't discovered yet, you should check out. There's also Radio Swiss Jazz. Both have no commercials and just play music.) Not all classical music contains moments of sublimity, but when they do, there...
Topology Story
Here's an oldie I wrote called "Water" published by Typology Magazine. It's 50% fiction. Enjoy!
Why it’s important to follow, repost, retweet etc
If you are not a writer trying to publish a book, it may not occur to you. The first thing a publisher wants to know is, What is your platform? In other words, how many followers do you have on your blog or social media. For those of you who do not know, I have...
Slightly Mighty IPA
I am on a low-carb diet trying to knock off 10 lbs. This used to mean no beer, but I remembered Michelob Ultra and I would sadly drink it when with friends, wishing I could enjoy the full flavor of regular craft beers. Well I've just discovered that many other brewers...
Man, the human
Things that demonstrate that man is still human: using utensils to eat real food. Or using tools of any sorthandwriting and arithmetic, and using them to write a letter to your mother or a friend, or calculate the perimeter of your backyardlocomotion by any organic...
New Beginning
Today marks the first day of my new career as a writer, that is, not as a hobby or something to piddle around with on evenings and weekends. Today, liberated from a traditional American employment model, I now set out to discover what it means to be a professional...
One Observation about Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(This post was written long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, probably in 2016 but not published until 2018) Aside from the title, which was way more auspicious than the film delivered, I was sad for Oscar Isaac, an actor that I like, that he was cast in such a...
On dying
Unacceptable ways of dying: after a long, desperate, nauseated, hairless battle with terminal cancer by withdrawal of sustenance after being kept alive artificially by some silly accident when I am so old and senile I can't take care of myself, like falling and...
Closer
(written 6/2017) There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen enough pornography that they can watch Closer without getting squeamish, and those who have not and cannot. I am not joking. There are seriously, literally these two categories. Those...
Cover Art Bronze Winner
I wrote in November [2015] that the cover art for The Former Hero was a semi-finalist in the AuthorsDB.com Cover Art Contest. I didn't bother to update the post when I learned I was a finalist. But now that the final results are in, and my book has won a Bronze Award,...
