The Recovering Hopper

  Work on the Work keeps going on apace. That, plus two bouts with the stomach flu (first Patch, then me), accounts for the sparsity of po...

  A s a young man I struggled once to claim my earliest memories, and after more than a little bit of thought, I arrived at two. Interesting...

  “I f you don’t have ability, you end up playing in a rock band.”    - Buddy Rich (1917-87), legendary jazz drummer     I spotted t...

“T o produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many ther...

Well, November was a crazy month over here. Tremendous highs, debilitating lows, and lots of hopping about hither and thither. First, ...

“ I ’m not suggesting you begin doing handstands on clifftops or risking life and limb. But I am suggesting that you must cut loose, in ...

Well, yesterday I crossed the Rubicon, so to speak. I bought ISBNs. What’s an ISBN? If you want to publish a book, you need an IS...

This will be the cover for my first self-published book: Hopefully I can get everything done and get the entire book out ...

Ugh. September was a brutal month. Failed to stay on task. In fact, receded quite a bit from those healthy productive habits I establi...

Ugh. August was a tough month. Lost twelve days of serious work on my self-publishing project: our annual vacation down to visit my i...

Now July has just about come to a close. The sand piles up in the lower chamber of the hourglass, quicker than I would have expected. Bu...

Well, June comes to a close, quicker than I expected. The girls have already been out of school nearly two weeks and now go daily to thei...

What do Ben Franklin Thomas Paine Anais Nin Walt Whitman Virginia Woolf Gertrude Stein Edgar Allan Poe Mary Baker Eddy and Car...

Part One (which should take me up to my launch date). Okay, since I am working diligently on self-publishing my two novels and have set a...

Just a brief update … Wrote just under a thousand words today for the introductory “teaser” of my new book.  It’s going to be a work ...

Thinking about inserting a very important secondary character, known as the Lens Carver, into a novel I am outlining.  Then, I got to thi...

Is 2,000 interesting words, composed right here at the Writing Desk of my mind, where I go for Dream-time. Results to follo...

Little One, my budding writer, is struggling to finish the year with straight As.  Inexplicably – to me, at least – the hardest B for her...

I’m blow-drying Little One’s hair last night when I decide it’s time for the nine-year-old challenge. She’s reading a book sitting in a ch...

No, it’s not an anthropomorphised punctuation mark. Earlier today at lunchtime I was skimming through a book first published in 1926 and ...