June 27, 2025 (Mostly A Reposting of Newsletter #22) Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: The healing is still ongoing. Some days, when the therapist is here, I will do more than I should and I regret it the next day. I have another couple of weeks of PT left, three days a week, and my …
Hi, Medical and Literary Updates: I guess I have a lot to report. The writing has stalled somewhat. I was on pain pills (Tramadol, about the only pain medication I can take), so I was a bit fuzzy-brained and sleepy most of the first couple of weeks. I’m using less Tramadol now, so that’s getting …
Hi, Literary Update (not much to add): My novella is a little over 40,000 words now. I hope to have the first draft of it finished fairly soon. [Note (11-7-2025): I was apparently kidding myself. For reasons I will cover later in the year, I still haven’t finished it.] I’ve already spotted a few structural …
Hi, [Update: 7-28-2024 — We must sound like walking disasters lately. Our garbage disposal gave up the ghost. Water just pours right out the bottom. One of our plumbers is coming to check it out tomorrow. We’ll have to replace it, of course. The garbage disposal came with the house when we bought it new …
Newsletter 022 – September 9th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: It’s a picture I took six years ago of the first checkpoint before entering Stiles Unit, the Texas prison where my brother, Steve, is incarcerated. See the Aggravated website if you don’t already know about Steve’s situation. In newsletters 10 through 16, I told …