Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Thursday, December 08, 2022

The More Things Change...

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I (Donis) haven't been feeling all that well lately. We've had a lot of rain here in the Phoenix area, which is horrible for my head...
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Saturday, April 23, 2022

My Mom's Yellow Bikini

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A couple of years back I had a dream where I saw my mother in a motorboat tied to the pier of a mountain lake. She was a young woman at the ...
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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Are We There Yet?

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We're now into year two of the Coof. Last summer my touring schedule was abruptly cut short by a cascade of cancellations. I had already...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Covid and Literary Conflict

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 By Thomas Kies  Two weeks ago, today, my wife and I won the lottery…sort of.  We both got our second Pfizer vaccination.  It was like this ...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Puppies and Pandemic Road Trips

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  By Thomas Kies I was going to do a sequel to my blog “Recipe for a Thriller No One Would Believe” about the insurrection at the Capitol in...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

Two Things I've Learned during the Pandemic

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First, I need a plan. Not only a "big picture" plan but a plan for each day. On the days when I have only a vague intention to &qu...
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Monday, June 15, 2020

Food--My Guilty Pleasure

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Shadow Hill , my latest Geneva Chase Mystery, is in the hands of my copy editor at Poisoned Pen Press. No sooner had I hit the Send button...
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Friday, May 29, 2020

What We Write About

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Should we keep the real world out of our books and short stories? Some writers and readers would argue that we should be able to "escap...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

Real World Tension

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In my creative writing class that I was teaching for our local college, cut short by the pandemic, I stressed the value of ratcheting up ten...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Pandemic voices

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For weeks now, our Type M blog posts have circled around the central player in our lives - the pandemic. We have talked about the inability...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

Pandemic...writing it into your work? Or not?

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I’m facing two problems with my newest writing project. One: Should I incorporate the pandemic into my plot?  Should I make reference to i...
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Friday, April 03, 2020

Navigating Social Distance

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Frankie, here. I'm an introvert. I mention that because of the tweets from introverts pointing out that a personality trait that is oft...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Living in the Kill Zone

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I'm 64 years old, which puts me inside the foyer of the Coronavirus kill zone. Fortunately I'm in good health. At least, I hope I am...