We Live in a Noisy World

For years I’ve known I was losing my hearing. I even blogged about it a couple of years ago. Did I do anything about it? No. I ignored it, laughed about it, even denied it. I could still hear, I just had to crank up the volume. Capt. Mark didn’t bug me about it. He … Read more

Moved In and Almost Sane Again

I’ve been missing in action for the past month, trying to get everything situated in our new house. Alas, the task was daunting. I breathed a sigh of relief after the “late” trash truck came yesterday and removed three large boxes full of flattened cardboard. The regular recyclables truck passed them by and I was … Read more

Talking at Cross Purposes

Aspiring authors are told to write about life, about real people in real situations. Let your hero and heroine meet in a cute way. Let them be ordinary. Whatever you write, do not let your plot hinge on miscommunication. To that I say “hogwash.” Most of life’s problems swirl around communication—what we thought, what we … Read more