Hello my probably dispersed and disgusted readers! It has been 3 years since my last post and of course many things have happened in that time span. So in a nutshell, that is it. I’m hoping to make a weekly post and also include some images of my office wall whiteboard markings for your entertainment. …
I know that it has been quite a few months since I’ve added anything to the Blog and for that I apologize heartfully. I’ve been through a great deal over the last while including contracting CoVid-19 and getting over it quickly. Give me a few days to get my thoughts together and I promise a …
Is it just me or is anyone else being plagued with a creative mental block? Has your desire to craft or write been replaced with the need to be entertained? Without consciously making a choice, my hands are being drawn to holding books and reading. Watching movies and bingeing on television series has become a …
Hello my faithful followers (if there is actually anyone reading this). After almost two weeks, I reluctantly had to withdraw from the online course I had been taking from Coursera. I quite enjoyed working with five internationally dispersed peers on “Writing Your First Novel”. There just wasn’t enough time. Juggle assignments. Complete work critiques. Work …
Get up, make coffee, have breakfast, shower, brush teeth, descend into the basement, logon to work’s remote access portal, monitor the queue for support items, answer calls forwarded to my cell, meet online with my (IT) team members, work on my projects so they don’t slide, sign out of portal, spend evening with family, go …
Sadly I have succumbed to a head-chest cold and spent a good deal of my day so far in bed. This is despite all precautions; washing my hands like a surgeon, soaking in hand sanitizer and wiping my keyboard, mouse and phone down with Lysol wipes. What started as a slight sore throat has culminated …
Hello loyal readers. It’s been over a week since WordBridge 2020 in Lethbridge and I should be updating you on my adventures in that windy Southern Alberta city. Friday morning (Feb. 7, 2020) I sat in the basement Good Times Comedy Club for one of the pre-conference workshops on memoirs, while the actual writing conference …
Welcome! I have returned to my Blog and will be updating it on a more regular basis. It’s surprising what a simple New Year’s resolution can do to get your creative juices flowing once more. I will be trying to get out a new entry each week, so that all those many followers out there …
Well it’s been several months and surprise I’m still not finding time to work on my book. Surprise! Life happens… In addition, it appears that the shaded world of bad actors ( polite company doesn’t call people names like Hackers! ) has been pounding on the gates of my simple writing Blog at all hours …
Hello All, I’m back from the frozen southern reaches of Alberta. I spent my youth leaning against the west wind around Lethbridge and never did like the added windchill it lent to winter temperatures. WordBridge was the first writers conference held at the Lethbridge Public Library. The event was well attended and during the many …
I know that it has been some time since I’ve posted to my blog, but as usual the adventure known as LIFE has interfered with and postponed my “best intentions” until now. I’ll do my best to give an update of happenings for me so that the next post can be a great deal shorter …
It happened! I got a reply a couple of days ago from someone with stories and memories of my Dad! Surprise…it was my 1st grade teacher, and I couldn’t be more pleased. She left me a long a detailed email, so now I have my first “external” research information item for my novel. I’m icing …
Well…hmmm… This is what it sounded like after sending off MANY emails, posting an online survey on my blog site, as well as writing a request for all of my many Facebook friends on my “wall” to visit the blog site… …the long silent drop of a stone down the dark well… …a scattering of …
Well yesterday I finally sent out the first wave of emails to folks that I hope have some memories of my dad as I start my detailed research into his life. Rejecting the mundane chronological life history found in most biographies, I will instead document Ron Pittman using an anthology of short stories. After all, …
Here I come! Ready or not. If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a picture of SCRABBLE© “WORDS” worth 12,000 words?