Category Archives: Miscellany

Author Followings

    In my last post, I mentioned that for the sake of diversity in my reading, I should put forth a greater effort to seek out minority authors and their stories. Read the past to see why this is important, in my opinion. Yet it brings up a far less important but nonetheless interesting …

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Small(er) Talk

If by now you don’t know i detest small talk, thank you for stopping by my blog and having anything at all to do with  me for the very first time ever. The rest of you know what a thorn in my side it is. I highly prefer conversation of substance, even if I don’t …

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MMXVI

Happy New Year to all. I am obviously back at the blogging wheel as it were. As I tend to do with the first post of each year, I’m just going to lay out the general plans I have for the year, a sort of accountability thing. First I’ll say that I accomplished about 90% …

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Put Off By Potomac Edison

I had originally planned to dedicate today’s post to spreading the word about one of my stories that appeared in a local short story anthology. But within the hour I was so put off by something, that the only hope I have in calming down about it is to “talk” about it, and spread the …

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I Struck Oil…

Oil painting that is. A few weeks ago I declared my intention to try out oil painting for the first time. I’ve always wanted to do it, and though I have no intentions of doing it all the time, or taking classes in same, I decided to at last seriously look into experimenting with it. When …

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