While I realize that, technically-speaking, Thanksgiving is already over, many of us still have three days of “Thanksgiving” to go. So it’s not too late for me to wish you a happy one. As expected, I got no further this week on any of my personal goals. And I’m still nowhere near ready with the […]
“I’ll give it another shot next week.” — Charlie Hills, November 15, 2019 Whelp, it’s “next week” again already. And no new post. Apparently fate has again decided I get zero hours to myself. Oh well… This week y’all get a Haiku instead of a more poem-y poem like last week. It’s very timely and […]
Whelp, I’d planned on posting the second part of the Europe trip today, complete with my wonderful prose and beautiful photos. Instead, real life got in the way quite a bit this week, and before I knew it, it was already two o’clock in the afternoon. I’ll give it another shot next week. In the […]
Origins It was around 2007 or so when I decided that I really and truly wanted to visit England. I’d always felt a strong affinity for the British Isles, so that played one factor in the decision. But by that time, a lot of my fiction work was heavily based in and/or influenced by the […]
“The year in review?” Charlie’s readers cried out. “It’s only November first, silly! There are still sixty days left until 2020. That’s like [whips out calculator] sixteen percent of the entire year still to come!” Excellent point. I realize it’s tradition to wait until the end of the year to do a year in review, […]