by mike | Oct 24, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Visiting the Devils Tower with my bride was one of the highlights of my life. This post first ran in 2021. In my comedy/science fiction series, bicyclist Jack Miller enters numerous worlds through “gates” along the cosmic tunnel known as the Ultimate Bike Path. It...
by mike | Oct 3, 2024 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Fantasy, Ghosts, Magical realism, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
A real baseball game on the Field of Dreams? Yes, it really happened, back in 2021. “Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa...
by mike | Sep 30, 2024 | Aging, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
With the presidential election a little more than a month away, and with democracy—the very soul of this country—at stake, I’m re-running this satirical (but in truth disturbing) scene from BACK ON THE BIKE PATH. You’ll surely recognize one of the two candidates....
by mike | Sep 23, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Sports, Uncategorized |
The wonderful language of baseball must be quite extensive for author Paul Dickson to create a dictionary of nearly a thousand pages! Here are more of my favorites. CANCEL CHRISTMAS. To have something bad happen, or to acknowledge failure. For example, Mo Vaughan once...
by mike | Aug 29, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized |
This time travel novel, The Sword of Tyron, is one of my earliest efforts. I first presented this post in 2021. A reader in the UK, one of my 17 international fans, 😊 recently wrote me to say that his old copies of my Sword & Sorcery novels, Berbora and Flight...
by mike | Aug 26, 2024 | Baseball, Books, Humor, Science Fiction, Sports, Uncategorized |
In my comedy/science fiction series featuring cosmic bike rider Jack Miller, I created a number of singular Heavens, called Afterwards. Jack visited his favorite singer, Harry Chapin, in the Rock and Roll Afterward, his beloved German shepherd, Barney, in the Doggie...
