This coming October, Ray Bradbury is coming out with a new novel called Farewell Summer, which is, apparently, a sequel to Dandelion Wine, and which Bradbury has been working on for several decades. What I could find online seems to indicate that the book is once again about Doug Spaulding, and is a coming-of-age tale…
It is official! Doug and I will be making a roadtrip to Cooperstown. Doug is going to fly into town on Friday, June 8. I’ve rented us a nice car from Hertz and we’re going to drive up to Cooperstown on Friday, June 9. It’s about a 6-1/2 hour drive from where I live, but…
There are 4 stop lights between my house and the grocery store, and in the direction that I go, I am traveling perpendicular to the prevailing traffic, which means I usually have to wait a while. This morning, I hit all eight lights (4 going, 4 coming back) when they were green. I didn’t have…
What’s the point of keeping a diary for 10 years if you don’t go back and look at it every now and then. Here, then, are some excerpts from April 22 over the last 10 years.
Last night, I had yet another in the series of “Grandpa” dreams. The dream itself was pretty vague, but there was one part that I definitely remember. At one point in the dream, my Grandpa was having trouble communicating with me and clearly wanted to tell me something. He took a pen and paper, and…
On the way up from the subway this morning, I noted a poster-ad for an upcoming “Federal Conflict Resolution” conference, which takes place, I believe, in Arizona later this summer. This is a 5-day conference. Are things in the Federal government so bad that an annual 5-day conflict resolution conference is necessary? What goes on…
We had our team captain’s meeting tonight and scheduled 8 of our 9 official games for this season. For some reason, one of the teams in our division did not show up so we have to schedule that one. We play in the U.S. Senate Softball League and this year, as it turns out, we…
I found out today that I need to go to Santa Monica for work (requirements gathering for a new project). I will be in L.A. from May 2 – May 7.
16,500 words into “Graveyard Shift” and I’m having trouble. It’s a complicated story with a large cast of unrelated characters, who, through a central mystery, are brought together. I have the ending worked out and in first draft, it seems okay, but the more I work on it in second draft, the more trouble I…
Last night, for the second time in a week, I had a dream that I could fly. Last night’s dream was much more realistic, however. I found myself jumping up into the air, and nervously wandering about as high as the tops of the telephone poles before trying anything higher. It was all very smooth…