We all are busy, so I will limit my remarks to extra annoying interferences keeping me from writing.

Goal: Complete The Ship from Wolfskill this fall.

Writing Event: A beta-reader suggests moving a significant scene. I move the scene and bury myself in a “dime novel hidden in the corn crib.”

Goal: Check the new version for plot errors.

Life Event: Motorhome engine has an early failure. (2041 miles) I spent two weeks standing on my head disconnecting 3,219 gizmos.

Goal: Check the new version for plot errors

Help Arrives: Friend, Manny, arrives with a good used engine. In two days, we pull out the old and in with the “good used engine.”

Goal: Check the new version for plot errors.

Test Drive: The engine runs well but is burning oil

Goal: Check the new version for plot errors

Diagnosis: Check for obvious reasons for oil consumption. Found nothing. Pouty, I finish my “dime novel hidden in the corn crib.”

Goal: Check New version for plot errors.

Blog: I decided I haven’t updated my website, so I sit writing this bit of nonsense.

Goal: Check the new version for plot errors.

Oops: I have to get ready for a chili dinner at one of the parish churches.

Goal: Get home and check the new version for plot errors. Get home and watch the news. Recover by watching garbage on TV.

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I spent my life teaching 6th graders. We have always been involved in church. Now I spend my days in an old stone house, wandering our four acres, and writing.