And where you can buy me, sort of. — January 15, 2023 — Update My interview with the Washington Post: Perspective | For the nation, 9/11 brought devastation. For the D.C. area, it was the start of 13… From his desk at the FBI's Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon…www.washingtonpost.com Medium Instagram Facebook Join Medium as a member (affiliate link)

Two deaths. One I knew was coming and the other caught me completely off guard. — March 24, 2023. I’m sitting in the lobby waiting for Lyft to show up. I had six injections in my lower back again. Anxiety had me up in the middle of the night so I did what I always do and jumped online. And then I see it. Missing DJ…

I should have done this sooner! — I didn’t think this day would ever come. I signed up today. I’ve copied and pasted email addresses from subscribers at BuyMeACoffee as well as Medium. I’m not having any luck with importing anything as of yet. I created a specific list in Library on…

It was time for a change. — For over ten years I had been writing erotica. Last October I pulled all of my ebooks from Amazon. Between lowering the prices of my books without my knowledge let alone permission, and the way they screwed writers with that TikTok Read and Return challenge, I had had enough. Plus…

They can’t hold a candle to Florida — Because book banning without a review BEFORE it’s banned isn’t bad enough, a screaming headline from The Hill. Florida bill would require bloggers to register before writing about DeSantis A bill proposed this week by a Republican state senator in Florida would require bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), his Cabinet officers and members of the Florida legislature to…

I’m offended at a Christian’s use of pronouns. — A few weeks back I got a wish list from a local hospital Chaplin. Not the first wish list from the hospital and I hope it’s not the last. Last fall I hooked up some staffers at a doctor’s office that I frequent with a new picnic table. There’s had…

Now WTF am I supposed to do with this? 🤣 — I’m still on a deep learning curve with Substack. Frankly, I haven’t had the time to spend on it and building it up because I’m trying to decide the best way to use it. I’ve started and am about halfway through the self-curation process of 1168 posts here on Medium…

Callout deadline extended — I opened one eye at some point during the night and saw an email from the Chicken Soup for the Soul Editors. That’s what happens once you’ve been published by CS4TS. They email you with pitches. It took me a long time to get used to that as it’s the…

When the general public knows you one way but those close to you don’t know you at all. — I’m really struggling right now. Back when I first started pursuing writing, again, I was told two things. Find a niche. I did, I write in 30 of them give or take. Don’t think that’s what they had in mind though. I was also told to come up with a…