A recommendation I’ve often heard is that a person should make it a point to talk with their older family members to gather their life stories while their elders are still alive. Large parts of a family history often go… Continue Reading…

I’ve probably mentioned somewhere in my ramblings how much I love to binge watch TV series, especially older dramas. People inevitably experience some level of culture shock when watching a show set in a timeframe or location other than their… Continue Reading…

A few months ago, I also had the privilege of interviewing the thoughtful and insightful Cameron McVey, a fellow author whose work I admire. We discussed everything from narrative challenges to what the future holds for storytelling. Below is the… Continue Reading…

As part of my metaphysical studies, I’ve trained myself in lucid dreaming, which is when a person having a dream is aware that they’re dreaming. For me, lucid dreaming doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s remarkable. I recently… Continue Reading…

As I’ve mentioned in other blogs, during my career I worked in the high-tech industry for something like thirty years. The job I retired from often dealt with what the development engineers liked to call “bleeding edge” technology. It was… Continue Reading…

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 (“Trope”: a common or overused theme or device.) The inherent nature of a genre trope is that nearly everyone engaged with the genre can recognize it. A genre writer can’t break the trope or they risk… Continue Reading…

I’m happy to go along pretending I’m not a “senior” in my own mind, but sometimes that mental image is psychically shattered by reality. I recently passed the one-year anniversary of retiring and am apparently still alive and kicking. I… Continue Reading…

I like to play a certain of game on my computer, mostly to make sure that whatever brain cells I have now will continue to be operational for an indefinite time period. I train those cells to interact nicely with… Continue Reading…

As a writer, I like being in control of the story. I have the “literary” power of life and death over the characters. Not that I’m a power-crazed maniac or anything, but doesn’t that sort of make me a god?… Continue Reading…

I’ve been binge-reading “cozy” murder mysteries set in the 1920s and 1930s. (I do question the coziness factor, since someone is always being murdered and how cozy could that be, really?) Invariably, in the books an elderly person has been… Continue Reading…