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    thoughts and other drivel

    after the binge

    26-Dec-2016

    Ughhh.

    Yesterday was quietly epic. If that's not an oxymoron. 

    Just Shawndra and her sister, three dogs, three cats, and me, three games (two on boards and one digital), a YouTube fire burning in the television, Bing Crosby crooning Christmas songs via some BlueTeeth, tw...

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    gardens and such

    'tis the season

    4-Dec-2016

    Solstice.

    Pretty soon now, anyway. If you don't know, there's this place in Pittsburgh, called the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden. Amazing place, truly.

    Anyway, this month they are keeping the doors open late for the Winter Flower Show and Light Garden. 

    So...

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    thoughts and other drivel

    (main)landed

    7-Aug-2016

    Waking up.


    So: This is my new website. Thanks for stopping by. Take a look around, if you like. 


    The more astute reader might notice that this I my first blog entry in the better part of three years. 


    I’ve been sorta busy for a while.


    Glancing at my earlier entries, yo...

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    writing biz
    pen to paper

    going coastal

    23-Nov-2013

    Rebel.

    That’s me: rebel, malcontent, nonconformist.

    Well, okay, maybe that’s not entirely true. But I am a NaNoWriMo rebel, refusing to follow the rules, cutting my own path, doing it my way, rationalizing why I can’t make my word count.

    For those of you who were unaware,...

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    thoughts and other drivel

    under the volcano

    9-Apr-2013

    Vocabulary.

    Here in Hawaii, normal conversations are often peppered with words and phrases borrowed from Hawaiian, such as aloha, maholo (thank you), pau hana (finished working), pilau (stinky or awful), and hordes of others which I can't remember unless I'm talking to...

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    pen to paper

    welcome to my world

    12-Feb-2013

    Sybil.


    I sent an email the other day, thanking a friend for her kind review of Gilman. In the process, I talked a little bit about what the writing experience is like for me. Shawndra suggested that I expand on those thoughts for the blog.

    Let’s start with this: Writing...

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    thoughts and other drivel

    comfort and joy

    19-Dec-2012

    I presented this as a closing philosophy yesterday at the last meeting of the year for my Hilo Toastmasters chapter:

    Before we adjourn, here at the closing of another year, at the end of our last gathering for 2012, I’d like to talk a little bit about the idea of comfor...

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    thoughts and other drivel

    big dog, big dreams

    31-Oct-2012

    Bliss.

    It is 4:15. AM. You know: dark, cold (even here in Hawaii), silent. This time of year it is cool enough at this hour to mute even the coqui frogs. And I am awake. I am awake because something has nudged me in the right shoulder.

    Now, you might think that this woul...

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    reviews

    i meet a new friend

    22-Oct-2012

    Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
    My rating: 5 of 5 stars

    Friends.

    Over the years, I have been fortunate to have had many friends to share my life with. Many of them were actual, for-real, genuinely alive people.

    Many others were figments of my own imagination.

    But many of my best...

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    writing biz

    not ready for prime time

    6-Oct-2012

    Kobo.

    I’ve spent the last few weeks pushing Gilman out through different sales channels. I had intended to make a big announcement once they were all in place. I haven’t announced anything yet because the plan went something like this:

    1. Make manuscript corrrections th...

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    about me

    I'm a writer and a poet and an artist and a fool and, at least for now, a no-longer-itinerant engineer.

     

    It could be said that I grew up (if you use a sufficiently elastic definition of the term) in Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio and Colorado. Following a series of mis-adventures, I found myself living in the rainforest outside Hilo, Hawaii, with my wife, the amazing Shawndra Holmberg; her sister, the equally brilliant writer Anne Avery; three dogs; two cats; and several imaginary friends, most apparently named Bob.

     

    All of the mammals have recently joined me in western Pennsylvania, where everyone wears a beard, rides a Harley and eats french fries on their salads.

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    The Bobs and all the rest were already here waiting for me.

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    after the binge

    December 26, 2016

    'tis the season

    December 4, 2016

    (main)landed

    August 7, 2016

    going coastal

    November 23, 2013

    under the volcano

    April 9, 2013

    welcome to my world

    February 12, 2013

    comfort and joy

    December 19, 2012

    big dog, big dreams

    October 31, 2012

    i meet a new friend

    October 22, 2012

    not ready for prime time

    October 6, 2012

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