We had to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 o’clock yesterday morning because we had to be at the trust attorney’s office in Snowflake at 8. We originally formed our family trust in Florida back in 2021, but there are quite a few differences between Arizona law and Florida law. The easiest thing […]
One of the nice things about the writing lifestyle is that we can set our own schedule. Sometimes I will spend most of the day at my computer working on a book, and Terry will be just as busy editing and proofreading. Other days, we may be busy with things around the house and not […]
Terry and I have been busy the last two days rearranging things in the garage and garden shed in the back of our property, sorting through boxes of stuff we still hadn’t opened since our move from Alabama over a year ago, and deciding what to keep and what to get rid of since we […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. In your Author Spotlight, you ask people if they are a plotter or a pantster, and I’ve also heard them refer to being a planster. I keep trying to figure out what […]
There’s a lot to love about the monsoon season here in Arizona’s White Mountains. First and foremost, we definitely need the moisture. The forest is parched, and the drought doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon. It’s also a big help to Terry’s outside raised garden beds and to the clover that I’ve been […]
Alli definitely dodged a bullet the night before last. Actually, I guess we all did. After I posted yesterday’s blog around midnight, I took her out for her last potty break and some ball chasing before going to bed. We have a large, completely fenced backyard, more than half an acre, and usually after her […]
I doubt there’s anybody who has grown up in this country without knowing at least something about notorious outlaw brothers Jesse and Frank James, who spread terror throughout the country in the years following the Civil War. From their days as guerrillas fighting for the Southern cause to their careers as train and bank robbers, […]
For travelers, there doesn’t seem to be much of a reason to stop in the small town of Neligh, Nebraska, in the northeast part of the state on U.S. Highway 275. With a population of around 1,500 people, Neligh has a couple of small museums, some mom and pop businesses, and that’s about it. But […]
No, I’m not going to talk about that. Heck, at my age I’ve forgotten most of what I ever knew, and it wasn’t much to start with. We’re going to talk about real birds and bees, and grasshoppers, too. We had a couple of hummingbird feeders out last summer, and the little buzz bombs were […]
They call German Shepherds Velcro dogs, because once you have one, they are stuck to you like Velcro. Having owned several magnificent German shepherds in my life, I have to say that it’s true. In the almost three years that we have had Alli, I don’t think I’ve gone to the bathroom by myself here […]
We went from winter storm warnings last week to a warming trend this week. It was 70 degrees here in Show Low yesterday, and the weatherman says it’s going to be 90 in the Phoenix area today. They say several records will be broken in the Valley of the Sun in the next few days. […]
As I said yesterday, setting up my new computer turned out to be much easier than I thought. However, nothing in life is totally problem free, is it? I’ve been using an older version of Adobe Photoshop Elements for a long time now, and when I tried to load it into the new computer, it […]
I know that anybody who has ever had to move at one time or another in their life has asked themselves “where does all this stuff come from?” I remember that in our days as fulltime RVers we carried everything we owned in our motorhome. It was a minimalistic lifestyle, and we enjoyed it. Now […]
I spent most of Saturday writing, finishing with about 3,500 words in my new John Lee Quarrels book. As I’ve said before, I always enjoy doing research when I’m writing a book, and this time around I’ve been researching independent music artists and producers. Just like myself and many other independent authors who don’t rely […]
I never trust anything the weatherman tells me because long experience has shown that they can point to their colorful maps and forecast anything they want and make all kinds of predictions, but in reality all they can really do is tell you what happened yesterday. For example, for the last few days they have […]