Career Counselor: What’s something you’re good at that you really enjoy doing?
Me: Lying.
CC: 👀
Me:
CC: Well, your top 3 options are politician…
Me: Nope
CC: Weatherman
Me: I don’t have the figure for it.
CC: Writer
Me:
I think hares get distracted all the time. The tortoise just keeps plodding.
To me, the training is more about discipline than stamina. 🤔
There are great philosophers, like Douglas Adams, who work to understand the big answers in life.
I’m not as smart as them, but I *have* discovered the big problem with life.
Life is the tortoise.
We are the hares.
Just putting it out there again:
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Pls LMK if you're interested!
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Artists leave themselves in their creations.
The gasp of a painter forever captured in colored oil.
The racing pulse of the writer pounding through the metered syllables.
The delicate vision of a potter.
And that is why I believe that we are all shards of God.
#vss
Hey, Troy! Glad to meet you!
I’m glad there are a few of us about, and that we aren’t like my Grandma Trudy who hugged everyone whether they wanted to or not. 🤣
Good luck with the second book. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I’m a hugger.
I even hug many of my employees. (I’m a manager.)
If we ever get the opportunity to meet, I’m going to ask you if a hug is okay. I’m perfectly fine with, “No, Rob.” Not everyone likes them.
But I will ask. 😉🤗
We are as forgetful as driftwood
We are not mere shapes
With no past lives
But what if we could remember
I am a splintered bowsprit
You are the elegant curve of a well-carved wheel
Maybe, she is the wayward rail from a lost beach house
We are beautiful
Remember?
#vss
🤣🤣 Never been swept away by the OOB syndrome.
Done that. 🫤
My ARCs are here and they are so pretty! 💜
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I have some PRINT and DIGITAL #ARCs to share. Please see the form in my bio to sign up!
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One of my favorites, and a big influence on my writing. 😀
Hi Michael. Nice to meet you. I’m going to point out that you look a little like a thinner version one of the sons in the game Myst.
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We’ll see if that’s a good way to kick off a relationship. 🤣🤣
My baby is cuter than your baby?🤔
My Sweet Bride and I gave a "Cold Eye Read" (after a 6 month hiatus) to our genre-busting children's book.
It deals with moving away from family, loneliness, discovery, loss, and reunion. It's SO darn good. 🥹
Of course, I may be biased.😉
Hard to know where that line is.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉🎉😀😀😀
Happy Book Release Day, Dianna!
Dear reader, Here, such as it is, is my soul. You will recognize it, of course. It was there peeking at you from the space between words. It loomed in that foggy white space at the end of a paragraph. Please be gentle with it. I tortured it enough by writing. Yours, Rob
A moment in the Hatfield household.
My Sweet Bride: You’re goofy, but I love you.
Me: Keep up that attitude and you’ll never be rid of me.
MSB: Okay.
Me: Okay😀💗
Opinion: Casinos are dark, depressing, smelly places that offer only a facade of entertainment.
I’ve been to several over the years, hoping to find that spark of fun they show in ads.
Nope. I don’t enjoy the spin, or dice roll, or card that determines whether I get to keep my own money.
Duh!🙄
My Sweet Bride is the same way. 😀Her caffeine cutoff is 1pm.
I process caffeine very quickly. So I can have it right before bed with no noticeable impact.
Same. I sometimes have tea.
What happens if
when it's my time to step
behind the veil
I find that the world has reached
it's ghostly limit?
"Sorry, Rob.
All the good ghost seats are taken.
All the bad spaces are full.
"How do you feel
about being the first earthly spirit
to haunt the moon?
#vss
🙏🏻🙏🏻🤞🤞💜💜
Are tears nocturnal?
Maybe not all,
But they rage as I press my broken face
into a pillow in the beautiful stillness of the dark,
My body gripped by tremors
Gasping
As I think of you,
My love.
These wet gifts cannot shine like gems in sunlight.
They must water my dreams.
#vss
You cannot know something you have not known before.
You can see the world spring to life after long winter, but you are deaf to the jubilance of the green.
You can spy a red leaf spiraling to the ground, but you can't hear its prayer.
You see moments.
I see the world.
#vss
Just a quick question:
What is the science behind the fact that 9volt batteries in smoke detectors ONLY lose their power and start that annoying, periodic beeping between midnight and 3:30am?
I think, therefore I am.
How glorious.
How cruel.
One must dig into the dirt
beneath the words
to find the evil ore.
Why cannot I cease to be
simply by not thinking?
Not thinking about what I did
to us
to the world we nurtured
like an infant lamb
before a roaring fire.
#VSS
My Sweet Bride and I worked on our publishing business plan today! 😀
So excited that this is the year! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
