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 | Jul 25, 2024 | Aging, Books, California, Humor, Native Americans, Publishing, Uncategorized |
Writing has always been a great outlet for me to vent, and it always will be. This post first ran in 2021. You likely know how that sentence ends. More about it shortly. In a previous post, “Writing Humor: It Doesn’t All Have To Be Funny,” I documented how my first...
by mike | Jul 15, 2024 | Aging, Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
My new Jack Miller opus, Perils of the Bike Path, has just become available for public consumption as a Kindle eBook. The print version will be available shortly. The following post is also the Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. You may notice—or perhaps...
by mike | May 5, 2024 | Aging, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Jacqueline was my world, my everything. The bravest person I’d ever known, she battled and beat the demon cancer many times during our 3+ decades together. Two of those times she was “toe-tagged”—advised to get her affairs in order. Neither came to pass. But last...
by mike | Apr 11, 2024 | Aging, Books, Death, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
This was an emotional chapter to write, but most cathartic. I first presented this post in 2020. When I wrote the first Jack Miller book, Bicycling Through Space and Time, in the ’90s, it didn’t take me long to learn that his many crazy comedy/satire adventures needed...
