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 Hi guys.  It's been a couple of months since I updated this blog as I've been working on getting Harmony (An Arrangement Part 3) completed.  It's been harder than I expected because I wanted to give these two characters (Emily and Chris) a happy ending they both deserved. Chris was such a jerk to begin with and I wanted more for Emily than just "going along to get along" for the rest of her life.  These characters both had a lot of difficult life experiences that made them who they are, but I didn't want that to mean they got anything less than the best kind of life together.  So that took some figuring out.  Anyway, you can check out Harmony on Amazon.  It's $3.99 or free with Kindle Unlimited.  If you like it, I'd also love you forever if you left a review. As an independent author I don't have a marketing department behind me, so it's fans like you that make it possible for me to keep going.   I'd also love to hear directly from you...

I've been spending as much time as I can writing.  I've been writing for a long time, so the process of putting words on the page isn't hard.  The hard part is doing it every day, consistently.  It's like exercise.  Going to the gym when you feel like it is no big deal, but going to the gym every day, no matter what you feel like, no matter what else is going on in your life--that's hard. You might say that exercise gets easier the more you do it, a habit forms and the habit takes the place of your old indolent ways, but habits are so easily broken, aren't they?  At least the productive ones are, in my expereince.  Always choose fruit over cookies until you don't and then you don't again and before you know it you've gained ten pounds.  Or always sock away some money for a rainy day, until you really really want something and your rainy day fund is...dry.  No, I think no matter how much of a habit something becomes there is always that moment when...

This post, once again, has nothing to do with my writing, mostly because I'm simultaneously trying to distract myself and intensely focus on finishing the third book in the "An Arrangement" series.  You create all these obstacles and barriers to keep two people apart and then you have to somehow get them past all of that so they can be happy together.  It's easier in books at any rate. I was watching cooking fail videos with my daughter when we came across the phenomenon of rice-cooker pancakes.  We love pancakes and I'm always looking for something to make the same old foods interesting and new.  I found a couple of cool YouTube videos like this one  here  , and then took a slight detour here , where I learned about Japanese souffle pancakes, which look amazing, but I worry might be eggy.  I don't mind eggy, but my kid hates eggy and will ooh and aww over the look of the food and then refuse to eat it.  The whole point of this exercise is to get ...

I've been a little disappointed this year because I had been looking forward to taking my daughter (5) to see the fireworks.  In prior years we couldn't go for one reason or the other, but I'd decided months ago that this would be the year.  Unfortunately, COVID came around and all the local fireworks shows were cancelled.  Because we live in Los Angeles I thought buying fireworks and doing our own little show was out of the question.  But... My neighbors around the city had other ideas.  Starting around sunset the loud booms started.  I'm used to hearing but not being able to see the fireworks from my house, but my daughter ran in from the back patio and told me she could see fireworks.  We went outside the front of the house and we could see fireworks of every color exploding in the sky to our south and east.  She jumped and squealed in excitement.  We walked down the street a bit to get a better view and I ran into several neighbors out on...