Tuesday, November 1, 2022


 


 

 It's taken me eleven and a half years, but I have finally republished my first book with KDP so that it is on Amazon with the rest of my books.  In celebration of this long-awaited event, I am selling this book for $11.50 through the rest of 2022.  After that, I'll probably put the price back to $14.  This book is the first of what I call my pilgrimage trilogy.  I also redesigned the cover of my 2nd book in the trilogy, The Way of the Wind, in a similar style as the covers of the other two books.  The third book, The Road Onward, has been filled with more meat and potatoes since it was first published earlier this year.  I've decided that since this is the final book in my pilgrimage trilogy, I will continue to add things to this book until my soul leaves this earthly body.





Saturday, October 22, 2022

Additions to The Road Onward

 So, I made a few changes and additions to The Road Onward.  Since this is the third book in my Pilgrimage Trilogy, I decided that I'll just keep adding things to this book until I take my final journey to be with my Father.  I might try some more fiction like I did with The Tantalizing Tale of Sassafras Sal, but lately I've been thinking about writing some songs.  I came across some old papers from my San Francisco days when I was pecking on a typewriter and sampling a bottle of wine each night.  Not sure if I should burn those papers of debauchery or keep them.  I also found some early attempts at making my Alaska children's book about my pet rat called Buddy Boo Boo Booper.  Maybe I'll try to finish it.

Our sweet dog, Alice, died this week.  We got her as a pup before moving to the farm a dozen of years ago. I'm gonna miss her.

Friday, September 30, 2022

Reflections of My Life

 I just came across the Marmalade song from 1969 called Reflections of My Life. I always loved that song.  It makes me reflect upon my own life as I have done in all of my writings.  For every book that I have written, I get this overwhelming feeling that I need to finish it before I die.  As I was working on The Road Onward, this feeling got so strong that I wrote the ending way in advance and told my wife that I had done that, and instructed her that if I am not around to fill in the middle of the book, she should insert in those missing pages, "David has gone to be with the Lord.  

Marmalade's lead singer, Dean Ford, sings, "The world is a bad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live.  Oh, but I don't want to die."   I've been obsessed with death my entire life, and there's a part of me that doesn't want to die, so that I can see our children have families and enjoy our grandchildren.  But, the world keeps getting badder and badder filling one's bladder with deceptive blabber, and I look forward to ridding myself of this broken vessel and being in Heaven with the Lord.  

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Technologically Inept

 That Amazon web address that I posted on May 3, 2022 about my first fully fictional book, The Tantalizing Tale of Sassafras Sal, doesn't seem to work on this blog.  The book can be found on Amazon.com.  I have been trying to show the cover on this blog, but so far my efforts have been in vain.  Too bad because it's a really groovy cover thanks to my old friend, Claude.  Alas, this too shall pass. 

Here's a photo of me and most of the family trying to figure out how the camera works on my laptop. According to the Ordnung (Amish rules) my wife and children can be photographed here because they are not posing.  They, like me, do not know that they are being photographed.

The Missing Spoke changes

 There were some editing mistakes when I first published The Missing Spoke many years ago. I made changes to the errors that really bothered me. The books sold at lulu.com should show the changes. The used books sold on Amazon will have the errors; I'm not sure whether the books Amazon listed as new have those errors or not. The errors on the original version may not be a big deal to the reader, but they were to me.  We learn as we grow and we grow as we learn.  Shalom.