Month: November 2025

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Foreseeing The Future #IWSG

  By IWSG

The awesome co-hosts for the November 5 posting of the IWSG are Jennifer Lane, Jenni Enzor, Renee Scattergood, Rebecca Douglass, Lynn Bradshaw, and Melissa Maygrove!

Every month, we announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say.

November 5 question – When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like?

Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way?

I started off writing poetry, back when next to no poet made money from their work. So, I expected nothing beyond being published in national magazines, and maybe get some notoriety, but that was about it. Back then, I hadn’t dreamed of writing fiction. That didn’t happen for many years.

After writing my first book, my expectations changed. Or rather, my hopes did. I dreamt of people loving my books, sharing them with their friends, and becoming maybe not famous, but at least semi-famous.

Well, famous I’m not. But I’ve found a small group of folks who enjoy my writing and share it with others. I’ve sold books at festivals and met up with readers in parking lots to sell them the next book.

It’s not what I expected from my life as a writer.

My life in general isn’t what I plotted, either. I didn’t imagine I’d spend hours in front of a keyboard struggling to find the right words. Writing a blog was not a thing. And social media? Ha! 

But you know what? There are days when this is enough. I may never be famous. Sill, I thank everyone who has read any of my work and enjoyed it.

By the way, I have a new short story being released November 11th, part of an anthology in support of K9s for vets. Watch this space for more info on Defending The Moonlight.

 

While you’re waiting, check out some of the others sharing the dreams by following the links below. And, as always, stay safe until the next time.

 

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Most Interesting Person #OpenBook Blog Hop

  By Open Book

November 3, 2025

Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met?

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many amazing people in my life.

Sure, part of that is due to the variety of jobs I’ve worked and places I’ve lived. Do I talk about the landlady who lived next door and treated us more like grandkids that renters? She’d bring supper over, or we’d cook and have her over, and she’d fall asleep on our couch watching TV.

Maybe the ex-military men I’ve known. The uncle who was serving in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack and never spoke of it. The neighbor, who was a Green Beret in Vietnam during the war and may have taken part in exercises in Cambodia. My father, who served at the end of WWII, who was always tinkering with electronics, and took up music after retirement.

Or maybe the nuns who taught at the high school I attended? The ones who signed anti-war petitions (In the Vietnam days) and led the school in celebrating the first Earth Day? The one who wrote a symphony or the other one who has spent years working for social justice? How about my coworker who had a photographic memory but was also paranoid about life. After I moved, I lost track of him—he doesn’t do social media although he was a computer genius.

How about any of the computer geniuses I worked with at my last job?

The ones that could out-think, out-code, out-program most of the vendors they work with. The one that had a wealth of stories to share from his military days, but also got up at two in the morning for several weeks trying to help an overseas company make their program work for us. Or the one that raised livestock on the side?

But I’ll pick on a former supervisor. I’ll call him “Pete” to give him some semblance of privacy. I watched him grow into a fine supervisor and then struggle with the responsibilities. At first, he worried about meeting one-on-one with me. I suspected his reason, even though he never voiced it. Eventually, he changed his mind. When his church, which he was actively involved in, got a new pastor and changed the way they worshipped and served the community, he left to find a different path.

Eventually, he left the company we both worked for. (I had retired by that point.) He found a job that allowed him to work remotely and travel at the same time. It’s not quite the van life he’s living as he has a home. he and his wife also started a you tube page.

What makes him interesting? Not everyone is willing to follow their dreams. I admire him for taking the risks he has, and not taking the easy way out. I suspect he is happier for it. (If you’re reading this, “Pete,” hello!)

I’m looking forward to seeing who the other authors on this hop talk about. You can find out by following the links below.

As always, until next time, please stay safe.

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November 3, 2025

Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met?