Impressions
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A Little Sojourn in SoCal (San Diego, Ca)
Howdy! I’ve been quite busy the last couple of months, managing somehow to publish a new beta chapter of Greycross: Twilight at Primrose, and cracking the 80,000 words mark on this debut novel. It’s really fucking good, and I’m immensely proud of what I’m creating. Once I get it out in front of the world,…
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Exploring Massachusetts (Gloucester, Boston, and Salem)
Each year my kids have a Fall Break, a week at the end of September where my wife and I frantically try to throw together some sort of itinerary that will beat back the gathering darkness known to parents as utter boredom. When kids are just lying around the house with nothing to do, well,…
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I’m Incompatible with Social Media
I recently had to summon extraordinary willpower—like that of a man sawing off his own leg to escape a bear trap—to simply delete my Instagram app. Being a very visual person, I found Instagram to be the most enjoyable of the social media platforms, as Facebook is rife with bipartisan political nonsense and irrelevant paid…
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Travel in the UK: England
Traveling to the UK has been a goal of mine for many years. At the age of 34, I applied for my first US Passport, and set my sights on Britain. Historically, members of my family have never left the United States, either due to lack of opportunity or a lack of interest in seeing…