Hi, According to the ECG they took a couple of weeks ago, I still have AFib. The amiodorone I have been taking (twice a day) kept my pulse rate within a certain range (which is good), but the AFib is still there. I’m supposed to see a specialist in a couple of weeks to talk …
Hi, Medical and Literary Updates: When this posts I’ll be getting ready to leave for an appointment with my cardiologist. I have been seeing him since May 2021 because of my A-Fib, which we were treating primarily with Eliquis (to guard against stroke). Periodically, he would check to see if the A-Fib had settled into …
Hi, Really short one today. Medical and Literary Updates (etc.): Aside from continued good but slow healing of my right hand, things are still much the same as last time. I do have to take a few days off from writing soon to do my taxes, though. Michael Standard Disclaimer: Please post a comment below …
Hi, Medical and Literary Updates: There’s not much to report. My thumb surgery is healing nicely, but I still can’t use my (fairly large) mouse with that hand, so I’m left-handing it with a smaller mouse. I have done some more work on Flood and Fire, and written an exploratory opening (a small chapter) for …
Newsletter 030 – January 13th, 2023 Hi, Welcome back. I hope you had a good winter break, and are experiencing a new year full of new possibilities. The next few newsletters will look back on what I’ve been doing this past year, and how that relates to what I have ahead of me in 2023. …
Newsletter 027 – November 25th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: I’m already breaking my idea of using a simple newsletter header by showing you the image above. This is a picture of the original cover of my first published novel, The Jagged Man. At the end of this email I have a sample of …
Newsletter 016 – June 10th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: This was taken by the side of the road in the UK’s Lake District, somewhere between Ravenglass and Hawkshead. In newsletters 13, 14, and 15, I mentioned three very different projects that I might take up at some point in the future: one anthology …
Newsletter 015 – May 27th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: This one relates to today’s topic, a book series I’m thinking of writing. Working title: The Lives of Franklin Roosevelt Jones. The titular character in the series, born on July 4, 1946, would likely have been born in a hospital just like this one. …
Newsletter 014 – May 13th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: This picture was actually taken at some marshland along the Texas Gulf Coast. The book I’m going to talk about in this newsletter is (or might be) set in Louisiana, though. I grew up reading a lot of classic literature. One of my favorites …
Newsletter 013 – April 22nd, 2022 Hi, About the image above: The background is just comprised of some graphic elements I’ve been tinkering with to possibly use on the cover of a book called A Mixed Bag. Over the last three newsletters, I tried to give you a sense of what the next few books …