Mostly stories about humorous or interesting things that have happened to me.
If you are a Baby Boomer or Gen X then you probably remember the TV show Cheers. Millennials and Gen Z might not but maybe they caught it on The Netflix. Cheers was the local watering hole for a bunch of colorful characters who made it their home away from home. The bar was helmed by Sam Malone along with his fellow bartenders Coach and Woody, and his cocktail waitresses Diane and Carla. Rebecca came in later to help him…
This whole post is going to sound like a bunch of whining from beginning to end about getting to do something I always dreamed about. So let me preface it by saying I am very grateful for what I got to do, because not many people get afforded the same opportunity. That being said, isn’t it more fun to read about how things go wrong and the obstacles you must overcome to get them to go right? So whining, but…
I was poking around in my drafts folder today and found this unfinished post from years ago. I decided to finish it. I first learned the power of the written word when I was 15 years old. You should know that I’m the kind of person that has real trouble articulating my thoughts. There is like a short circuit or a delay between my brain and my mouth. Five minutes after a conversation I often find my self thinking “I…
It’s been awhile since I told a story from my military days, so I thought I would remedy that. This story is about the first time I launched missiles from a Navy ship. Yup, I was the guy with my finger on the button. If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time then you could probably predict that things did not go according to plan. Another great tagline I could use for this blog. OK, let’s get…
This is a story about one of those times. Sometime around aught 03, I thought that would sound cool but it just doesn’t have the same ring as it did when people were talking about the 1900’s. Let’s try again. Sometime around 2003, I was working in Oxnard California as a civilian technical representative for the Navy. This job required a lot of travel to work on ships in different port cities. I got a two week assignment to work…
Hey! Remember me? I’ve been a bit distracted lately. Mostly because I’ve been spending a lot of time in my fantasy writing world. This last month was a big push to the end of the current novel I’ve been writing. Guess what? I finished the rough draft! It’s been an amazing 106,000 word journey. This one was different than the ones that came before. It took on a life of it’s own and I felt like I was just simply…
It’s been a while since I just told a story. The idea for this one has been sitting in my drafts folder for quite a while. I am going to tell you how I got all my scars and broken bones. Exciting stuff, huh? I know! Let me give you the tally before we do a deep dive into each one. I have four scars and three broken bones. Actually, that’s not quite true. The last incident involved multiple broken…
Amazon just started a new service called Kindle Vella, you know, like Novella? It’s a platform where authors can release serialized stories one episode at a time anywhere from 500 – 15,000 words long. Right now I am working on three books at one time. Am I crazy? Pretty much. Doing one book at a time was hard enough, but I just got three ideas at once and had to go with it. One of the books is a follow…
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to define thee,If I were to lose that Ring, in the darkness she would bind me. J.R.R. Tolkien (slightly modified) Ari and wife 1/3 were speeding west along I-10 in their ’88 Mercury Tracer hatchback. The cargo area in the back was full to the brim with suitcases. The back seat was full with a three year old toddler and a two month old baby. They were about three hours out of…
I’m a published author! Woohoo! I can’t believe it. I actually conceived an idea, wrote about it, finished writing about it, had it edited, did re-writes, did more editing, and published it! It’s been two years in the making but among the many other DOA projects I started, this one is finished! I know I’ve talked about working on this novel a few times before, but for the newbies I’ll just post my book summary below. A man and his…