How d’ya you like them apples?
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – As we pick our words and our apples, we should remember that they can become so much more when they inspire others to be creative.
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NaNoWriMo update
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Today was National Novel Writing Month’s Double-Up Donation Day, when participants try otodouble their daily word count and to make a contribution.
Read More NaNoWriMo updateOff to NaNoWriMo
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -I’m going to jump into National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, again this November.
Read More Off to NaNoWriMo‘A Captain’s Duty’
Reading Time: < 1 minute – REVIEW – The Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips” does a good job of telling the story, but the book carries the audience through his personal back story, family life, and an hour-by-hour account of the adventure with the Somali pirates.
Read More ‘A Captain’s Duty’Don’t spoil the whole bunch
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – One day it’s Robert Frost, the next day it’s an old hit by The Osmonds. It’s amazing what goes through your head when you’re up on a ladder picking apples.
Read More Don’t spoil the whole bunchNational Novel Writing Month returns
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – This time I’ll be tackling “He Said, She Said,” a novel about the career of a couple of journalists who start with a local newspaper just after the Watergate era.
Read More National Novel Writing Month returnsHair today, gone tomorrow
Reading Time: 3 minutes – HUMOR – I’ve been losing hair for years, if not decades. But to have a whole fistful of it disappear onto the floor at once? That’s drastic.
Read More Hair today, gone tomorrowCatching the breeze
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – For me, it was a perfect end of a summer that had seen no time on the water and little pushing a pencil.
Read More Catching the breezeSchrödinger’s Kitty
Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR – Is the cat alive or dead? Or less macabre: Is she sleeping or is she in trouble?
Read More Schrödinger’s Kitty‘Living Here’ — Starting over
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -With permission from the Republican-American, I plan to self-publish “Living Here” columns to benefit the newspaper’s charity, the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund.
Read More ‘Living Here’ — Starting over