Well, look who’s back to post on his blog again after five months. Yup, it’s me! I’m hard at work on my fourth manuscript. In the summer I was working on my third. That story got abandoned because my main character, Peggy from Bill’s Cajun House of Pleasure, didn’t have a story arc. There was no place for her story to go. She, and others, from Bill’s will appear in my current project, but as minor characters. The main character is someone new. I’m having fun writing her.
Can you believe we have under two months left in this decade? Pretty soon it’ll be the roaring twenties all over again. Without Prohibition and gangsters in their stock cars evading the police. As long as Black Tuesday isn’t repeated at the end of the next ten years, everything will be fine.
A highlighted historical event from today comes from 1493 when Christopher Columbus first sees the island of Dominica. It was a Sunday, dies dominica is Latin for “the Lord’s day.” I’m not sure what the natives called Dominica before he arrived, but this name stuck.
If you follow me on Goodreads, you’ll see I’ve been reading a lot of Matthew Kelly and spiritual help books of late. Reading them in a batch like this is beneficial as you get a good, uplifting message over and over again. After I finish my current read, there is one more spiritual self-help book on my to-read list. Then it’s back to fiction.
Well that’s a hodge-podge of a blog post, isn’t it? I’m all over the place. Hopefully, I will return to form soon and give you some great historical tidbits. Happy reading and welcome back!
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What I’m Reading – Many readers I know like to inquire what their favorite author is reading. At the end of each blog post, I’ll let you know what book is open on my Kindle. I hope my choice of reading material inspires you to read a variety of authors and topics. Currently, I’m reading The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, SJ.