by mike | Dec 29, 2014 | Aging, Books, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As the year 2014 comes to an end this week, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/68th of your life, that’s what happens. In any case, to slightly paraphrase a cherished line from the movie...
by mike | Dec 5, 2014 | Books, Humor, Life, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Dude, you gotta read this book! About a year ago I had the great pleasure of working on The Everweed State (subtitled E Cannabis Unum; how cool is that!) with author Rebecca Baumgartner, who had a good deal of help with research from her husband, Tracy. This...
by mike | Oct 13, 2014 | California, Life, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing |
Just got back from a short—but real sweet—trip to Idyllwild, a town over a mile high in Southern California’s imposing San Jacinto Mountains. Not that I ever need an excuse to go there, but in this case we made the trip to celebrate a significant birthday for my...
by mike | Oct 6, 2014 | Aging, Baseball, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
My dad, Murray Sirota, passed away at age fifty-nine in 1969, when I was just a mere slip of a lad—more or less. We knew it would happen; a couple of months earlier he’d been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, the end result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking, and...
by mike | Sep 2, 2014 | Aging, California, Life, Uncategorized |
“Hi, I’m Mike, and I’m a head case.” Okay, I hope that didn’t prompt you to counter with the typical twelve-step response, because if it did, I gotta worry about you. 🙂 Tell the truth, we’re probably all head cases when it comes to one thing or another—something...
by mike | Jun 23, 2014 | Books, Editing, Life, Publishing, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Okay, I think I’m allowed one “Brag Post” a year, so here goes. After I came back from a dark place and started publishing again in 2011, I’ve had three of my novels nominated for best in their category by the San Diego Book Awards Association. My ghost stories, Fire...
