Category Archives: Stories of my life

I am going to ride this crack squirrel right to Famous Author Town!!!

Okay… obviously, this is just a metaphor… I mean, in the first place, the crack squirrels aren’t that big… and there is more than one of them… a lot more… and they live in my head most of the time, helping … Continue reading

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I am going to quit pretending I am ever going to be a famous writer, and start asking: “Do you want fries with that?”

I am, I have to say, crushed… filled with self-doubt… and also with an anger that I don’t know whether to aim at myself or in a more outward direction. You know the post I did the other day, the one where … Continue reading

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Some of my ideas are good… (or); Yes, I am smarter than little children…

Back when Mollie was still in elementary school, I used to show up early to pick her up because traffic was so bad. This meant that I spent fifteen or twenty minutes just hanging around and waiting. I did not … Continue reading

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Here it is… the finished cover for my new novel…

I hope it works… I hope it fits on the book and everything lines up like it is supposed to… I will order the first copy soon, and in a week or two, I will let you know… and show … Continue reading

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My new book is now available… the one for kids… about the lonely little wizard… oh, yeah…

You watched me make this book. You watched as I took an old comic I drew way back in the day and turned it into a book that all children will love. I showed you the new watercolor paintings I did, … Continue reading

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Grateful Dead bear… yeah… I did that…

Back in the day, I had a custom t-shirt business. I never made any money at it. My stuff was all too weird. And I suck at marketing. I was going through the garage and I found this… it is … Continue reading

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We went camping… part 1… (or); Dragonfly porn!!!

Yes, thanks to the magic of the telephoto lens, you all get to see some hot dragonfly on dragonfly action… Cue the cheezy porn movie music track… boom-chikka-wah wah…

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My new children’s book is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I just got my first copy. There is one small formatting error, which I should have fixed this weekend… It even has a back cover… wait… I just noticed that the sun on the fence makes it look like it … Continue reading

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Some very good reasons to read my new book… which is the third book in my action/humor science fiction series… and maybe even read the first two books as well…

Yeah… it has tie dye-wearing ninja assassins from another dimension, trying to kill the hero… which, as it turns out, is me… but not this me, a me in even another dimension… Okay, the little bear isn’t really in the … Continue reading

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I took your advice, for a change… here is the new back cover of my new children’s book…

Many of you said that my original artwork for the back cover (shown below) was too… ‘busy’… ‘jolting’… well, you used a lot of different words to tell me it wasn’t my best work… Okay, the thing is… and I could have kept this … Continue reading

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