Category Archives: Stories of my life

Wizard magic… part 6… (or); it takes magic to make a children’s book…

Another finished page… well, except for the text… from my new kid’s book. I am glad I have been able to recycle some of my old watercolor paintings for backgrounds. Yes, I am still cutting up the original comic strip … Continue reading

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My new book is done!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it’s true, the third book in my action/humor science fiction series; ‘The Otherwhere Chronicles’, titled; ‘Walking Around’… (don’t worry, it is more exciting and amusing than the name might imply. Our hero, who happens to be me, but in … Continue reading

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Wizard magic… part 1… (or); Photoshop, it is about as close to magic as we are likely to get in real life…

So, as long as I am working on my new children’s book, I thought it might be fun to sort of show you what exactly it is I am doing to turn an old comic strip I drew way back … Continue reading

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The third book…

The third book in my action/humor science fiction series should be available within the next day or two… My daughter and I have finished the back and forth of the process to fix the few little glitches that always seem to show … Continue reading

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If you want to meet me in person today, and live in the Los Angeles area…

I am going to be sitting in a Starbucks somewhere in the North Hollywood area… all day… doing some writing and some editing… I will bring my ipad and do a post letting you know the exact location as soon as … Continue reading

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It’s not that simple…

Remember my post the other day… the shameless one… no… the other shameless one… yes… the one where I suggested that if you all bought a few of my books… available as links if you click the pictures of the … Continue reading

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A children’s book is born… (or); A look inside the mind at the creative process of an artist and writer… who also happens to have crack squirrels living in his cranium…

Well, there it all is, the original, amusing little comic strip that I drew when I was a teenager so many years ago… with all its ‘making fun of creation myth’ overtones… along with one of the watercolors… ( the … Continue reading

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Uh… just read the cute little story… complete with pictures… that I drew… back when I was about 17-years-old… and I will try to explain what I am doing with it at the end…

——————————- Okay, where should I start? As I mentioned, this is something I did way back in the day. Obviously it is nothing more or less than a creation myth story that pokes fun a religion in a gentle way. … Continue reading

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Pouring my art out… getting back to the basics… and a chance for you to name my new robot buddy…

I have been posting pictures of my travels so much lately that this blog has turned into something other than what it used to be. But now I am all caught up… and it is going to get weird and … Continue reading

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sunsets and crack squirrels…

When I was at my mom’s house in the Bay Area, I went down to that place by the bay where people walk their dogs… because I was missing my dog. I didn’t, for a change, get any good pictures … Continue reading

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