Help Writing

I spent today updating another blog of mine, Writer's Doctor: Writing, Editing, Tutoring. I made it when I had extra time after choosing my family’s health over my teaching job during the peak of Covid, back in the fall of 2020. I tried promoting it but my SEO chops had gotten outpaced by the social …

Peat’s Miles

Peat was ten years old yesterday. Aside from upping his counter-surfing game, he hasn't changed much from Day One. Instead, we have. It might explain why we have no friends, but I'll take that trade any day (now). As some of you probably remember, it wasn't like this at first. I still think of the …

The Yellow Bittern

Anyone who hunts birds knows heartbreak, if only because most of us have been through dogs. The best of them last a quarter of our lives at the most. So we watch them come and go. And then there are the birds. And the land. Innocence. You know what that's like. I've been trying to …

Hope

My morning ritual every day like clockwork is getting roused out of bed much earlier than I want. Usually the culprit for the rude awaking is Peat because his internal clock tells him it's time to get fed. Bloom on the other hand is just an innocent bystander to this stupidness. Believe me, we've tried …