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A page from a journal
I jsut finished my latest journal, which I call sketchbooks of the mind. This one held about nine months of thoughts and was a little heavy I put it on the shelf next to the 37 others. I use the journals more to clear my mind, and I was happy not to be carrying all those thoughts with me any longer. But on a whim, I pulled another Sotm down and cracked it open. The thoughts now have a different…
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Feel free to read this great review
I am not reposting this simply for an ego boost. I feel like this recent review will help a potential reader of The Trier more than me. Hey, the book ain’t mine no more. Since one is forced to put one’s book into a genre or category -thanks to Amazon- I created my own. I like to call The Trier (and following books in the series) “coffee magic realism”. Yet, I’m not sure what it is. The review and…
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Not a book review
I don’t review books and hesitate to even suggest books to other folks, unless I know them really, really well. I go into this in an entirely different old blog post. But I just tried to find it but couldn’t in my previous posts. Hmmm, maybe it doesn’t exist. So, to put it briefly, I see a book and a mind as two types of energy. One, a rainstorm and the other a growing tree. When a…
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A squirrel, a new year and me
This year was not going to be a busy Holiday Season. So, about a month before Christmas, I decided to focus on honoring the Winter Solstice. This year, 2025, had not been a great one so this gave me the chance to send it packing on December 21st instead of waiting for the calendar New Year to arrive. One description of the Winter Solstice that stuck with me was “the death and rebirth of the…
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Thanks
Thanks for checking in this year. Just been hibernating in the real world and been enjoying the break from all this filtered reality. But I plan on seeing you all next year! Have a great Holiday Season! Thanks, Jerry WordPress just congratulated me on 7 years of blogging.
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Time editing reveals opportunity
It is not an edit, a fix, a mistake. It is an opportunity. A chance to make something better. Who is this world hasn’t benefitted from a second chance in some way or another? I know I have. In fact, I can think of many times when I’ve been given many more chances than I may have deserved. If viewed in a positive light, a mistake is simply an opportunity to learn something. Editing your own work…
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The Siren Agent
This is a repost for National Coffee Day 2025 – To submit a query, please use the form below. Please fill out all fields. If an agent wishes to read your submission, he or she will contact you in response to your query, usually within 6-8 weeks. Which agent would like to submit to? https://www.fineprintart.com/art/history-of-the-starbucks-logo There she is. My agent. She and I…
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Notes from Meditations
Wow. I found this in my drafts folder. I thought I had posted more about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. I guess not. It strikes me that since I read Meditations that Ai has been creeping more and more into our lives and even our minds. In the year or so that I read Meditations, Ai has become part of our everyday lives. Nothing has changed in humans since the times of Aurelius. The mind and the…
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Grindhouse Double Feature
I hope you enjoyed the popcorn and used the restroom during the intermission. I have continued to grind away. Before I move on, I must clarify my grind type. As you may be aware, not all grinds are the same. I have a drip coffee maker, an espresso machine, and a French Press maker. Each performs best with a different grind. The espresso is very fine, the French Press is coarse, and the drip in…
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Grindhouse
Well, I paused and leaned into the question, “You have to grind away until you find a way.” That will be my response one of these days when I’m asked how I become a global literary superstar. Until then, I will rerun the pretend interview in my head. What is not pretend is that everything is work in the end. With my writing practice on intentional hold for now, I’ve found myself noticing how…
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A trip back to Starbucks store #204
A trip to my Starbucks #204 It is the summer of 1992. In my “Starbucks novel”, Tripio, Jay works at a Starbucks store #204 located on north side of Chicago on the corner of Clark, Diversey and Broadway. In Tripio, for the sake of brevity and authenticity, I refer to it simply as store #204, or even just #204. Tripio is a historical fiction novel, set at time when there were around 100 Starbucks…
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Action writing?
Rosenberg’s critique shifted the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished painting being only the physical manifestation, a kind of residue, of the actual work of art, which was in the act or process of the painting’s creation. Action Writing? So, my novels are residue? I’ll take that. I’ll take whatever outside external definition comes with putting them out there.…
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Writing before the writing
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Take the time to let it pass
Thinking is hard. Reacting isn’t. Working on something of any worth requires intention and attention. Producing activity is easy. I am not sure about all you all, but I have hard time sitting still. Somewhere inside me a little voice with a big mouth is telling me that I have to be doing something. The little voice with the big mouth is usually right of course. There are always dishes to be done,…
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Better than wipin' ass?
I was finally able to revise and upgrade the cover of my first novel, Tripio. It had been bugging me for years, like something your doctor would mention at your yearly check-up. Not life threatening, or even painful, but maybe you should do something about it. And so, the process never made it to the top of the pile of things I needed to do. The term book industry folks would use to describe…
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Updating Descartes
Some of us know Rene Descarte from the Latin cogito ergo sum. All of us know Rene Descartes from the English I think therefore I am. That has been around so long that, as far as I can see, it no longer applies to our everyday life. In keeping with my revisions of other words of wisdom, I’ve updated Descartes to apply to the current, unrelenting, device-spawned commodification of our own,…
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A walk in the woods
I am on a break from writing, having just finished The Travels of the Trier. I would even use the word sabbatical, since I wrote Travels on the heels of The Trier goes to London, after writing The Trier, revising Ironjaws, revising Back outta the World, and writing Tripio. Included in all those were edits, more revisions and more time at the keyboard than I could begin to count. So, instead of…
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