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Russell Blake on Amazon's KDP

Posted February 18, 2012

Russell Blake is a friend of mine, and he’s a fine indie writer with a great sense of humor.  Unlike many of us indie writers, Russell has made a point of staying abreast of the changes that are coming at indie writers like a runaway train. 

On February 16, he wrote about his experience with Ama…

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Do You Know How To Work A Zipper?

Posted February 16, 2012

My day job takesme into day care centers.  There I meetteachers, parents, and kids.  Tuesdayafternoon, I saw a mother pick up her daughter, who I would guess to be sixyears old, and her son, who is probably four. The mother found the son’s jacket, helped him get it on, and then turnedto assist her d…

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How I Write

Posted February 13, 2012
A while back, Stephen Woodfin, emailed, asking if I'd write a guest blog for Venture Galleries.  
I replied, "Sure."  
A few days later I emailed him and asked what I should write about.  
He said, "Write about how you write," and he added, "We'll run it on Monday, February 13."
I thought about that …

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The Class of 1960

Posted February 9, 2012
Fifty- two years ago today, the classof 1960, Palatka Senior High School, Palatka, Florida, was thinking aheadninety days, to our long awaited graduation day.  There were two hundred and twelve of us inthe class, all anxious to be away and about the business of conquering theworld.Now t…

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Holding out for a hero

Posted February 8, 2012

WARNING - This post has four videos and 360 words.  The videos have a total play time of less thansix minutes.  Regardless of your readingspeed you should be able to read the text in less than two minutes.  From start to finish this blog post will takeless than eight minutes of your time.  Ifyou don…

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Posted February 5, 2012

Last night I saw Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.  Lest you think this might be a movie review,let me say up front, it isn’t.  I’ll justsay this about the movie; if you haven’t seen it, put it on your list of moviesto see.  If you have seen it you’ll knowwhy it triggered the memory that led to t…

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Russell Blake - Blogs and Books

Posted February 4, 2012
Russell Blake is a fine writer and he is a friend of mine.  Russell is also a member of the Writers and Reader's Tribe on Triberr.  Unfortunately, his blog, Looting Uncle Sam didn't make it into the Triberr Stream for dissemination, so, without his permission, I went to his site and copied the blog…

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Why I Write by R.S. Guthrie

Posted February 1, 2012
Rob Guthrie is my first guest blogger.  I met Rob last summer through twitter, then email, and finally when he founded RABMAD (Read a Book Make A Difference - an organization of writers who donate a percentage of their royalties to charity).  Since we first met, we've become great friends, and I'm …

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Guest Blogger Feb 2

Posted January 31, 2012

   Thursday, February 2, Rob Guthrie is going to be blogginghere, and I will be blogging on his site – Rob on Writing.  
We will be writing on the topic – Why I write.
   This is the first time I’ve done the guest blogging thing;however, Rob is a pro at it, so I know that everything will be fin…

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I've got your back...

Posted January 29, 2012
   On December 11th,I noted two things about myself that I wasn’t happy about.  The first was, in thirty-three years ofrunning, I was about to finish a full year without running more than 1,000miles.  Overall I’ve run more than 40,000miles in those thirty-three years, but, in 2011 the total was ba…

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A Kidnapped Short Story

Posted January 28, 2012
I love to tiptoe into friend's websites and blogs just to see what I've missed in my frantic, timed-contest, rush to see how much I can accomplish.


I just found gems on on Claude Nougat's blog - a bunch of short stories that are unique, eloquent, and thought provoking - a beautiful combination.


So I d…

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Connected

Posted January 28, 2012

In mid-July, 1995, a dog crossed ahighway in north Alabama.   The dog, amedium sized, black, female, with no pedigreed ancestors in her lineage, hadbeen exploring the five acre patch of woods that bordered the southern side ofthe highway near her home.  Her emptystomach told her it was time to go…

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Game Face

Posted January 26, 2012

Yesterday, I spent the morning gettingready for my first “day job” sale of the year. At noon, I went out to run a couple of errands and pick up lunch forChristina and me.  The first errand was atrip to C.T. Garvin’s Feed Store, where I bought cracked corn for the pigeonsand squirrels and sue…

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"Hi, this is Carl Touchstone...."

Posted January 25, 2012
Dr. Carl Touchstone

In 69 years, I've had a half-dozen or so "goodfriends" and maybe four mentors. In only one case were they the sameperson - that's him in the picture - Carl Touchstone - my friend, my mentor,and a man that has never been far out of my mind since we met more than thirtyyears ago.

I c…

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I have walked and talked with God

Posted January 23, 2012
Sit down, take a deep breath, and relax.  Let me tell you a story, a true story thatbegins this way: I lived and worked in Laurel, Mississippi, from 1979 through1982.  I moved there from Mobile,Alabama, where I’d also lived for three years. Prior to living in Mobile, I lived i…

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The Phantom

Posted January 23, 2012
Overfour-hundred years ago, a large British merchantman was attacked by Singgpirates off the remote shores of Bangalia. The captain of the trading vessel was a famous seafarer who, in hisyouth, had served as cabin boy to Christopher Columbus on his first voyage todiscover the New Word.&…

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Triberr

Posted January 10, 2012

This post was written by my friend Renee Pawlish, and posted on her blog, To Become a Writer.  The information about Triberr is excellent: a must read for all authors who are using Triberr to promote their work.  

Indie Authors – How To Use Triberr to Grow Your Blog

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Carrying a water buffalo

Posted September 22, 2011

For sixteen months, I served in Vietnam as a U.S. Army Platoon Sergeant, Battalion Personnel Section Supervisor, and part-time helicopter door gunner and sometimes crew chief.  I volunteered for Vietnam, extended my service obligation (see Vacation Bible School) to go, and pulled a few strings to m…

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Vacation Bible School

Posted September 3, 2011

For this post to make sense there are a couple of things you should know before you begin reading:

The first is, history pinpoints the Vietnam War as beginning November 1, 1955 and ending with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.  What history doesn’t record is that the United States almost lost th…

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Let me tell you a story...

Posted August 28, 2011

Sit down, take a deep breath, and relax.  Let me tell you a story, a true story.  I’ll begin this way…

I lived and worked in Laurel, Mississippi, from 1979 through 1982.  I moved there from Mobile, Alabama, where I’d also lived for three years.  Prior to living in Mobile, I lived in Jacksonvil…

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