1/2/2015
Did you think I was never going to post again? I have difficulty with it, I admit. It always seems like such a big task to post on the blog. After all, this is the official record, right?
And there's always the problem of having to download my photos and edit them and pick the right ones and make up a story to go with them. And then what if I'm not clever or profound. What if it's all just a description of a rather common and dull daily life. I might as well post it on Facebook.
Well, actually, I do. I snap a quick photo with my cell phone and post it to Facebook because something was funny, the sunrise was beautiful, or I made a particularly beautiful pan of cornbread. It's just common stuff. It's not for posterity.
I guess that's part of why it's been so difficult to keep up this blog. I approached it as if it was for posterity. "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's five year mission: To boldly go where no man has gone before." My life isn't like that. I'm timidly going where everyone else has gone at least once.
Since leaving Seattle on October 14, I've been across Washington, into Oregon to visit Ava and Ross, across a corner of Idaho and down to Salt Lake City, across northern Colorado to visit David and Tressa, up to Laramie to do research and launch NaNoWriMo. Then I cut straight down I-25 through Colorado and into New Mexico. I stopped at Capulin Volcano and then on to Ruidoso where I spent two weeks in a condo pounding out my new novel. I spent the next weekend in Las Cruces where I finished this year's novel and then went up to Mule Creek, NM and on up into the mountains to have Thanksgiving with Liz and Gary, friends that I met online. Great time. Cathy, another friend I met online, invited me to spend a few days in Alamogordo and attend the Lion's Club volunteer recognition party. I got to volunteer in the thrift store and see some of the local sights, as well. Then I started Eastward and got to Fort Worth where I met first with my editor, Jim. Then Cousin Nigel met me and we had a reunion as she headed for Waco and I headed back northwest. It was a great time and I've connected with a whole bunch of Everett cousins that I've been out of touch with for a dozen years. Finally got to my Sister Sharon's house in time to celebrate the holidays and get frozen in. The Texas Panhandle just isn't all that hot in December/January.
Monday, I'll be wandering generally eastward, planning to spend a week in Branson MO and then wandering down into Florida and hoping I'll find some warm weather during the coldest months. Nothing definite on that yet, though.
Along the way, I've published Jason Black's, new book Blackpelt. I designed templates for Larry's set of three books and for Karlene's new novel, Flight for Success. I'm about to release the second edition of The Gutenberg Rubric. I'm deep in the layout phase for Mary Driver Thiel's new book, Twelve Thousand Mornings. I wrote my November Novel, Blackfeather (by Devon Layne) and hope to release it by the end of February. I continue to write my long serial at Stories Online.
I can't say that I'm making a huge difference in the world, and so there really isn't much to put down here "for posterity." It's only about today. And today there are no pictures. I'm going to see if I can make short photo posts from my phone.
Happy New Year!
