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So far everything are on schedule. The Hunter is looking pretty good. Editing is done and most of the formatting is done. Submission begins tomorrow, but it can be a week-long process. One of the details is what goes on the back of the book. Check below to see my favorite draft so far. It…

Every job has something that makes your head hurt, but for writers formatting is the worst. This is making sure every space is counted, and every line is in the right place. Each chapter has to be set up exactly the same. Page numbers, headings, footers, it all gets jumbled up in my head making…

From time to time I help my dad on the farm. He’s almost 85 and while still active and doing for himself, there are some things he needs a little help with. Yesterday we were relocating the ducks. They start out in an incubator, move to the 4 ft by 2 ft enclosure in the…

Well it all started when Shawn, the best husband in the world, suggested trying a new recipe he found on line. It is French Onion Soup Spaghetti. I thought it was the perfect day since it wasn’t nearly as hot as it had been, we have the living room ac set to dehumidify and the…

I bet you handle frustrations much better than I do. I have always been solution oriented, so when my list of possible solutions runs out my wallet and we still have no working solution I tend to get surly. This happened with the car recently, we spent a lot of money trying to get it…

Too many times I have heard people ranking the lives of others in terms of importance and value. Let me throw a monkey wrench in that reasoning. There is no way to know the future, there are no guarantees, and no promises. A child’s life is no more valuable than a grandmother’s and a mother…

We saw some amazing ice sculpting by Mother Nature this past week. She painted the trees and everything else and it was really pretty spectacular to look at. Unfortunately with the high winds, trees uprooted, power lines went whipping around, poles fell, others snapped in two. Branches blocked icy roads and the power delivery systems…