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  • A Book Store…

    When I was a kid, maybe fourteen, I walked from my home to Maplewood, MO.  It wasn’t far, just a couple of miles, but the walk was worth it. Tucked away between the bar on the corner (that had the best Polish sausage with Miracle Whip sandwiches ever – of which I could do a

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  • FULL WOLF MOON RISING

    Today, Indies Unlimited featured “The Wolf’s Moon” by Patrick Jones as a Book Brief.  Isn’t it interesting that they chose this weekend to feature the book!  That coincidence may never happen twice! Thanks to Indies Unlimited for their devotion to writers everywhere!

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  • “The Wolf’s Moon” is featured today on Indies Unlimited.  This site is very accessible to the Indie author in every aspect.  Beginning or seasoned, or simply somewhere in between, informational blogs about tips and tricks for the Indie author are provided by a staff of experts.  I particularly enjoy their featured “Like Fests” where the

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  • Woodworking as a Hobby

    Many people have hobbies; the ones you use working some item with your hands. For me, it’s wood.  There is nothing wrong with oak, it makes great furniture.  Pine is good but it is a soft wood.  It can have a nice grain but it can “sweat” sap and it needs to be sealed. Cherry

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  • The Summer Garden

    A few years ago as a birthday present for my wife I dug an area next to the deck and made a flower garden. My wife knows about flowers; when to plant them, where the sun is best, etc.  As for me, I figure if it goes in the ground and it gets sun and

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  • The Library

    Years ago when my son was moving from kindergarten to the first grade there was a summer reading program.  The program covered all students in St. Louis, Missouri.  If a student read five books over the summer, the reader received a certificate for an ice cream cone from the St. Louis Public Library.  The fast

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  • Ink Blot Test

    Let’s Do an Ink Blot Test for those of us who are HAPPY it is the brand new HOWL FOR FRIDAY event!!  It just seems an appropriate activity for the day!  I think it looks like two wolves dancing in the moonlight. What do you think?

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  • The Ozark Mountains

    I now live in the Ozarks.  It’s a great house in a great area of Missouri. In past blogs I wrote on the people here that I am proud and honored to be allowed to call my friends and neighbors. This blog, though, is about my cabin even further into the mountains. It is a

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  • An animated book trailer promo Soon, “The Wolf’s Moon” will be a year old.  Our first book signing (for some reason I don’t care for the term…”book launch”) was in February.  It was an overwhelming success; I almost ran out of books!  Most of the town of Bourbon, MO turned out.  My wife and I

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