Money

Writer’s Rant for 1/23/24“The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money.” (an IRS auditor). So if you haven’t figured it out yet, today I am thinking abut the upcoming tax season. It’s not fair. We go from the “Most Wonderful Time of the...

Who’s Driving the Bus?

Writer’s Rant for 1/20/24After retirement from my professional career, I got bored (before I began writing). So, I looked for part time jobs to occupy my time. I’ve had a few of them these past five years, including bus driver. First, I got my passenger...

Burdickii

Writer’s Rant for 1/17/24Growing up, I was both a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. We lived in the western NY countryside, and had a “community” of houses around us. Not far away from our farm house was the “Community Center”. It was on a side...

Word Speak

Writer’s Rant for 1/13/24″Approximately 20% of the world’s population speaks English, with around 400 million people who speak it natively and an additional 1.5 billion who speak it as their second or foreign language.” English is not an easy...

I Still Have Potential

Writer’s Rant for 1/9/24I began work on my second novel several months ago. The (tentative) title is POTENTIAL. Potential is defined as: having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future. And that’s where my story begins....