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Happy Thanksgiving

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 […]

Just Kidding

“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 […]

The Best Laid Plans…

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 […]

Europe, Part One

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

“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, […]