Are you puzzling the pieces together

Google+ is becoming an essential part of an author’s platform. Until today, I’ve paid little attention to this social network, focusing on Twitter and Facebook. But the statistics speak for themselves. Google+ has more than one billion enabled accounts with 359 million active monthly users. This is about half as many as Facebook and twice…

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2014’s Adventure

On this year’s adventure, we will revisit some countries and see new ones. We are returning to Europe to continue research for Dennis’ book about his father’s WWII combat parachute jumps, see friends we encountered on the Camino Francés in 2011, explore new countries (Sweden, Denmark, Germany—we only stepped into it last year), attend the…

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Do you like the new Twitter?

I don’t like things that change just for the sake of changing. I agree with Salinger’s statement in The Catcher in the Rye: “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” There is nothing…

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Too busy to blog is only an excuse

Forgive me, dear readers, I have lost my way. I kept telling myself that I was too busy to blog, other things were more important, like writing my next book. In fact, writing that book took over my life. For the past two weeks, I have neglected not only you but almost everything else. I…

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