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.  

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.