Regular Life

NOTE: Anyone reading my latest fiction, “Off Planet,” the action ramps up today and we finally see the beginnings of a plot in Part 3. If you haven’t read any of it, you may start here (this isn’t a shameless plug abusing the WW format — I just happened to be in the middle of [...]

An image from Saturday night’s show (cropped)
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The next several entries here might be brief (but might not) while my writing time is diverted to my latest short story (it’s been a while, I know). To continue reading “Off Planet,” please click here. Anybody fairly new to this space, please [...]

“This is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.” Her eyes welled as she pulled a tissue from a pastel pink box.
Keith winced at the stock phrase, but was glad he had elicited that reaction. Shelley was pretty and treated him like a person. He was saddened by the thought that her life [...]

Ben and his cousin, S, play in their Grammy’s pool.
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First, Happy Birthday to my wonderful wife, without whom that little guy above would not have been possible.
Remember way back when… you came over here expecting to read thoughts or feelings of a regular guy with a regular family, leading [...]

Golden Gate Bridge in Fog
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Our final night, we drove to San Francisco.
I had never been into the city from the Oakland side. The drive over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge conjured up memories of its 1989 collapse, and more recently the Minnesota bridge collapse on I-35. It is a [...]

My last view of the Sierra-Nevada Mountains’ Caples Lake.
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Had I stayed in Thursday night after work, I would have missed two memorable firsts. I hate to admit that I’m starting to understand why so many people live in California. During a break in the action at the customer’s site that day, [...]

No day-by-day account of my trip this time. I know that tears most of you up, but trust me when I say that 5 p.m. - midnight rarely was enough for a whole post on this trip, even for a mover and shaper like me. Or is that mover and shaker?
(As I type this, my [...]

The view out Shag’s window.
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How many times has your luggage soaked in pouring rain for 90 minutes? Whose fault was it? Yours, or trained professional baggage handlers’?
Okay, so “trained professional” might be a stretch.

Pic of the Week

Detroit’s Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez hits a double in Monday night’s game against the Oakland A’s.
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Monday night, I went to a Major League Baseball game for the first time since I was eight, give or take a year. Last week two co-workers planned to go and offered to [...]

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I’m still incredulous that in our two years in Texas, nobody had told us about this place. Standing there looking at it, I wanted to hike down with just my camera and a couple bottles of water. The next time I’m there, that’s exactly what I’ll do.
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