Thursday, December 31, 2020

Resolute

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It’s the last day of 2020, the end of a trying year. For many it’s been a downright shitty year. Losses, in one form or another, upon more l...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Bye Bye 2020!

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  It's almost time to say good-bye to 2020. Thank goodness! When I think about how little I’ve done, writing-wise, in 2020, I feel rathe...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Last post…of 2020

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by Rick Blechta Starting in 2014, I’ve kept a running file of each year’s blog posts. It’s always sort of exciting to get to the final one o...
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Monday, December 28, 2020

Starting Over

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By Thomas Kies This will be my last blog of 2020. I certainly won’t be sorry to kick this year’s butt out the door and embrace 2021. 2020 ha...
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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Christmas Stories

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Christmas resonates so deeply within us because of our holiday memories. I thought I'd share three of mine. The first happened when I wa...
Friday, December 25, 2020

Looking Backward and Forward

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 By next Friday at midnight -- whatever happens between now and then, if the planet is still turning -- 2020 will be in our rear view mirror...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Christmas Eve and Chocolate to All

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LaNell's Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies Christmas Eve at last, the beginning of the end of the longest and darkest year in decades and (I pra...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Winter solstice hope

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I have almost no words for this blog. I echo those of Rick and Douglas; the end of 2020 can't come soon enough. After months of lockdown...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

My wish to all of you

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by Rick Blechta To further illustrate just how miserable 2020 has been, we had an opportunity to witness a once-every-600-years conjunction ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Where was I?

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Hi, Douglas Skelton this end. This year will the strangest Christmas in living memory, thanks to you-know-what. Here in dear old Blighty fam...
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Friday, December 18, 2020

The Great Unknown

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  I spent Thanksgiving in a raft on the Colorado River, with my daughter Michele, her husband, Harry, my granddaughter Audrey, and her husba...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Book Suggestions 2020

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  I join with Rick and everyone else here at Type M in encouraging you all to support your local independent bookstores. If you’re in the Un...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Short and sweet!

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by Rick Blechta Last week I wrote about supporting your local independent bookstore, and if you don’t happen to have one, any independent...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Ripped From the Headlines

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 By Thomas Kies I’m constantly on the lookout for plotlines that I can “rip from the headlines”. More often than not, I don’t.  I make stuff...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Don't Tell Me

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   You may remember this comic strip:     Linus is watching television. His older sister, Lucy, walks up and asks what he is watching.      ...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020

A New Year, a New Book.

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Donis here. Thank goodness this horrible year is almost over. May 2021 be a better year and new beginning for all of us. As for me, I'm ...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Searching for that grain of sand

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Before I explain that title, I want to second Rick's excellent suggestion about buying a book (or more!) from your local independent boo...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2020

A prescription for this holiday season

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By Rick Blechta Toronto, where I live, is currently in a partial lockdown. My wife and I decided when the current lockdown began three we...
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Monday, December 07, 2020

Taking the city heat

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Write what you know. It's one of the golden rules of the game. There are many golden rules. Too many but this is the one that concerns m...
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Friday, December 04, 2020

Evildoers

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 I 'm late posting today. I intended to write about my river trip, but there were a number of interruptions yesterday and today went the...
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