Turkey Day in North Carolina

Turkey Day in North Carolina

The LeeLander landed in Franklin, NC for a couple of weeks last year in November. I had always wanted to visit Franklin because it’s an Appalachian Trail Town. I know, big shocker there, right? The bonus to this trip was that the daughter I had just made a connection with earlier in the year, also lived there. You won’t see anything about it in the video, though. It was our first time meeting IRL (other than when I held her…

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Radioactive Man

Radioactive Man

I’m Iron Man! Oh wait, no, that was Tony Stark. I’m Radioactive Man! Yesterday, my cancer doc implanted a gamma radiation pellet in my liver to kill that pesky tumor that has taken up residence. Soon after the surgery I had to get on Facebook and post about it of course. This is what I said: So far, no manifestations of super powers. I do have restrictions because I am now actually emitting low levels of radiation. I have to…

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Holding Out For A Hero

Holding Out For A Hero

Last weekend I got to meet one of my heroes! It wasn’t an actor, singer, or reality star. It wasn’t even one of the people that are the real heroes like firefighters, medical professionals, or the majority of good policeman. She is just my hero. If it hadn’t been for her, I wouldn’t be posting anything right now because I wouldn’t have a blog. If that had been the case, then I am also more than certain I never would…

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Too Many Irons In The Fire?

Too Many Irons In The Fire?

More like too many projects in my Scrivener folder. I briefly mentioned before that I was working on three books a couple months ago. Since then, I started working on a short story and another novel. I thought I would be devoting the lion’s share of my writing efforts to Finn’s Descent, the follow up book to Sawyer’s Run. I have the general outline of the book laid out and written a few chapters but then the story stalled out….

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When is cancer a good thing?

When is cancer a good thing?

I’ll tell you when. When it bumps my priority level for a liver transplant into the stratosphere! The scene earlier today: Doctor: So, why are we seeing you today? Arionis: Have you seen my latest MRI results? Doc: Let me look at that right now. *clickity clack clack click* Oh, you got cancer. Ari: Yup. Doc: Well then, remember all the times you pushed us to do a living liver transplant and we said no because you weren’t sick enough…

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I fought the BIG D. Now I’ll fight the BIG C.

I fought the BIG D. Now I’ll fight the BIG C.

EDIT (08/29/21): I published this a few days ago but I am going to update it due to a comment I got from Rebecca (see below.) I think not calling it the BIG C and referring to it as the little c would be much more appropriate. I can’t change the title because it would mess up the original URL of the post, but I am going to change it in the body of the text. Thanks Rebecca! I’ve written…

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