The Heat

The house central airconditioner has gone out. Probably just the fan, but I’m waiting for the repairman to arrive…sometime. Of course, my office is out in the RV, but there’s a problem there as well. We don’t have the required 30-amp outlet necessary to plug in the RV’s shore power cable. I’m using an adapter,… Continue reading The Heat

The Lost Scene

I lost a scene today. It wasn’t serious, just about a page on the manuscript, and it was in recent memory, so it didn’t take too long to re-create it. But I’m sure it’s about 50 words shorter than the original version, and I don’t know what I left out. Microsoft Word again. The old… Continue reading The Lost Scene

Texas Highways

Mary Ann Melton, my wife, is a nature photographer. She does other things as well, but her heart is in nature shots. Lately, she’d been hunting about, seeking markets for her work. It’s a shotgun approach, as it is with my writing. Send a large variety of material out into the marketplace and hope something… Continue reading Texas Highways