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Blog for May 2026

May blog, 2026 Blog, I must blog… I have been trying to keep up with things, and now my word program is predicting what I’m going to type next. F* how do I stop that? I hate this program. AI needs to stop trying to help me. I have enough problems without contributing to them. […]

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Blog for February 2026

Feb 1st, 2025 Blog It has been quite a week in our little city and across our whole NC state. First, we got about 4 inches of ice and sleet. It refroze every night, as we had barely seen temps above freezing. Then this weekend, it snowed continuously for about 23 hours. My foot-l

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New Year: 2026 post

The trials of these last few months have been rolling around in my head. I have tried to stay positive but… It’s beyond difficult. Maybe all humans are feeling this way. For me, there is another layer, perhaps, and it feels slightly deeper. I see many of the things I have written

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Mid-month December blog

This mid-month blog is usually only for my Patreon group, along with many of the things I do. Please feel free to join me there for more interaction with my characters. That would be the ones I write and the ones who are in my membership. Just click here Last post of the year is

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December 2025

Hello, all you wonderful people. It is December already. It’s cold, very cold. Good to stay inside and write. Well, edit to be specific. I’m learning the new tools and ways of doing things. The info I got from that class I took is settling into my daily writing. I see improvement

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Blog October 2025

How is it October? What happened to the year? It feels lost in all of the chaos of the world. Will it ever calm down? I feel like I’m on a freight train barreling down a mountain pass, at full speed and no breaks. I just can’t stand it. Feeling like you are holding onto […]

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September 2025 blog

Last month has been crazy for me, and probably for you’al. Things have been busy both outside and in my head. The old greenhouse is almost revamped and ready for the winter. I hear that it will be cold and snowy. I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, it has been one of […]

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February 1st Blog

The year of the dragon is gone. It was my year, and boy did things fly high and fast. Power was brought back into my life. Drastic moves were made. My whole life changed yet again. Now we go into the year of the snake, it is time to come home to the ground to […]

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New Years Blog

January 2025 2024 has been a year of totally unexpected, life-altering things for me. The challenges and the trust needed to just let the past go and move forward into the unknown have been huge. So much soul-searching has been filling my brain this year, it has been hard to over

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December Blog

December. It is the end of the year graced with a touch of snow, and one late blog. I should be waxing poetically about the tilt of the planet as the reason for the season. I tried and failed. I am stuck in the 5th layer of Hell: Moving. The house is stacked with boxes […]

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October 2014 Update

This will be short for there is much to do. We have had a bit of rain and wind here in North Carolina during last week. Hence, why this blog is late. Sorry, but unforeseen circumstances have been a mainstay around here. I have been worried about friends and family. Luckily, I did

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September, 2024 Blog

Things, stuff, real life… They all make it difficult to work on words. When you have to get a new dishwasher and have to have service on your wash machine that may also need to be replaced, it all sucks. That is what my life has been like lately. But now, it is a long […]

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August Blog

“May you live in interesting times.” The curse of my lifetime. If I had a dime for every time someone said ‘your life has been so interesting, you should write a book.’ How about six? Okay, these books are not about my life, they’re Spec’s life. But right now, everyone can say th

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July 2024 Blog

It’s July first, and life is a speeding rocket ride. The fireworks are an apropos analogy for my life right now. For me, it has been full of joy, wonder, excitement, fear, duck and cover, shock and so many more ooo’s and ahhhh’s. So, I have a lot of plans going forward. I will ne

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June 2024 Monthly Blog

Sometimes I get caught off guard by these monthly blogs. I turn around and it is the 30th. Keeping on my schedule is sometimes nearly impossible. Yes, I make my schedule so I should not complain, I need to fire my scheduler. YOU’RE FIRED! There now. I guess I told me. I still ne

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May 2024 blog

I did something completely different this month. I wrote a quick short story. It took me longer to post it into the Kindle Vella program than it did to write it. Okay, not really but it sure did feel like it. I know nothing of this program, it seems like a good spot to put […]

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Blog for April fools

Yeah, getting fooled is fun. We need to love good jokes and pranks. Creative and smart ones are always the best. It would be easy to get me this week as sleep has continued to be elusive. I’m becoming used to the emptiness and the quietness of the house without Sammy and Gandalf,

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January 2024 Update Blog

The author expresses relief and joy at completing book two, “The Domes,” and plans for its release. Winter inspires more writing for another project, and a plea for peace in Ukraine.

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