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Author/poet/singer/​songwriter/teacher/actor/playwright/ thinker/cook/fixer/​gardener/builder and... Wrote a bat virus pandemic series in 2012 eerily echoing Covid. Finally finished trilogy. Now it's alt-history sci-fi! ;-) Find it at DesertedLands.com
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Gone to BC today to celebrate my b-day before the border closes. Hyperbole? I would've thought so until last month. :-(

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News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT - www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

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There are so many huge things to fear and discuss that I've found myself taking refuge in minor complaints, like "I can't find the precise kind of herbal tea that I want," or "These tomatoes are slightly too fibrous." There's something so satisfying about a minor gripe.

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Elena and I could be 2/3 of the cast. I've already built hidden door bookcases.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Okay. Back in the game as an author who finishes and publishes. I can't control whether people love them, but I have to help the ones who might love them find them. [That's a clunky sentence, Rob, unless you read it out loud.] If you read it and liked it, leave a review. If U hated it, plz lv rvw.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

You had me at "art is how we decorate space," then... "music is how we decorate time." As an author singer songwriter whose primary visual art is pumpkins, I heARTily endorse this.

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People often ask me if I reread my books after they come out. 1. No. Never. Ew, David, ew. No. 2. I have no interest in reading my writing unless I'm writing/editing it. There is so much else to read. 3. I read the thing so many goddamned times while writing and revising. So many. YET STILL I ERR

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I'm here cause "butterflies are free to fly..." Not here or on any social media a ton, but this seems like a fair replacement for some activities. Update: Book III in Lizzie's Deserted Lands trilogy) is available as an e-book on KOBO. It will be available worldWIDE on 12/12. See reply for print.

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