I find history an interesting subject. Unfortunately I don’t read as much of it as I would like, but I try to do a little bit here and there. As an added bonus, sometimes it is a bit of history that just might be a little obscure. Have you heard of the Finnish Civil War?

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Pruning the apple trees is a rite of spring. In past years I had a tendency to get started late and finish in a somewhat hurried splurge of activity–tinged with a bit of panic that perhaps I wouldn’t get it done in time. This year I had to take a different approach.
Since I’m no longer […]

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I think we survived through the software upgrade. If my e-mail subscribers get this, it means I managed to successfully re-enable the functionality.
Maybe at some later date I will go into greater detail about the what and how of the hack, and my further thoughts.
For the present everything is good again.

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Dear Readers,
My site has been hacked. This does not affect any of you readers, should you be concerned about that. The hack apparently came through a weakness in my blogging software, so I must install an updated version. If all goes well I will be able to reimport all my writing and my email subscribers […]

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What Mickey Spillane says about writing Mysteries really applies to all writing. Words for a fiction writer to remember:

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last […]

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