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Patronizing Me & Other Updates, Including a New Book!

I’m sorry for lack of updates, but I have been working my lil ol’ bum off! I just want to through into the ether that I have a Patreon page where I tend to do most of my blogging these days, both the free posts and Patron-only. I’m hoping to update this website a bit […]

2021 & Things to Do

I’ll start off right away by saying thank you for reading this. I know that I haven’t kept up with my blogs for awhile and there are lots of reasons, and in the past year, I’m sure you know and have experienced it yourself. Still, time passes and sins of those in charge, and those […]

Writing for Fun and Nightmares, My 1st Attempt at Fan Fiction

I have never written fan fiction. The idea idea of fanfic as a major thing is, to me, a fairly new thing, definitely since the rise of the internet. When I was of an age to really want to write fanfic, the internet was in its infancy and I didn’t have a computer. By the time […]

My Best Big Brother Moments (Just Not for My Younger Sister), Part I

I’ll often say I lived my childhood like an only child, and it’s pretty close to being true. My younger sister, Tracy, was born three-and-a-half after I was, and while we sometimes played together and had a good time, we often fought, and are very different people in a lot of ways. I could be, […]

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Imagine my surprise when I saw I hadnt posted here since last May. I thought for sure that Id made posts that were crossovers with my Patreon page since then, but the proof is in front of me. Ive been pretty terrible about blog posts in general, here and on Patreon. As a teacher, once []

Funding My Art in the 21st Century, or I’m on Patreon Now

It seems appropriate on what would’ve been Harlan Ellison’s 85th birthday to tell you about my Patreon page. Harlan was big on making sure writers and artists were paid for their work and this is something that, having been publishing for 20 years, I am really in need of. While my teaching career pays well […]

Aftermath & Updates

Today is Dad’s birthday. He’s 78. I talked to him tonight and made him laugh a few times. It’s a gift, this ability to say the thing to make him not cry. It was a gift that I used during the two days we stood by Mom’s deathbed. I helped my sister through, too. So […]

Mom

Yesterday afternoon, Friday, February 22nd, 2019, Patricia Ann Gauthier, Pat to her friends and loved ones, Mom to me and my sister, and Mémé to my two daughters, died. She was 68 years old, two weeks away from 69. I was there, holding her hand, at the end. My father had just come in from […]

In 2019, I Promise to Something or Other, or I’m Here, See?

As has been the case for the last few years, I’ve meant to write here sooner. When I think I might, though, I think of Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancin’ in the Dark,” the opening lines of which are, “I get up in the evenin’ / And I ain’t got nothin’ to say.” That’s how I’ve felt. […]

Harlan Ellison

“René Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Would you like a drink?’ Descartes says, ‘I think not,’ and disappears. A moment later he reappears and says, ‘On second thought…’ Anyway, Bill, this is Harlan Ellison.” That was how my second voicemail from Harlan began. It was a moment that knocked me out. I’d […]