how to publish a book of blues

45 minutes, alarm to walking. 11.4 miles of walking – broken into segments of 7.3 & 4.1 miles. The runner’s high got me through the day. But I looked at the damned stats again. Luckily, they were encouraging. Bad, bad habit. I know I can get that alarm to walking time down to 30 minutes [...]

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Starting Wednesday, June 15, 2011, I begin my Summer of 210,000 Words. I’m scared, I’m nervous, I’m excited. I’m rolling the dice. What Is the Summer of 210,000 Words? While I sort out the next phase or two of my career, I’m completing most of a huge first stage to a commerce / branding project. [...]

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I went into the national celebration called Black Wednesday not realizing how much I needed a release. The release came in moments wrapped up in ironies. Real ironies, not the poetic moments people mistake for ironies. Then again, I hold off on that because I might get to the end of this thought and mistake [...]

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“No. Pride won’t be my fall. I’m a Cubs’ fan. My heart was coming apart before I was born.” – Nat Finn. I dunno. I suppose everyone who claims to be a writer has either distractions posed as vices or vices posed as distractions. Many drink. Some just roll up in a bed and hide [...]

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Back in the 1990′s, I got my cousin to listen to a abstract, coffee house hip-hip band from New York named Soul Coughing. Back in the early 2000′s, my cousin came to visit me when I lived in a place my world dubbed The Corn Crib. As we were playing Cornhole in The Corn Crib, [...]

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