03/05/2026

A new Substack article about the research and process that went into building this website is now live. If you’re interested in learning how a self-publishing author’s website happens, check out my little corner of Substack where I’ve been writing, step-by-step, about the process of writing and self-publishing from the beginning. If you’re interested, click here.

Meanwhile, our little town nestled in the mountains of California’s Pacific Northwest has had a relatively warm and unusually wet winter. There’s the usual flooding in flood prone areas, the typical winter rockslides, landslides, and washouts, but precious little snow. While California is free of drought for now, the mountain streams will be running low this summer.

In local news, there’ve been sightings of mountains lions around town, which is not unusual. We do live in their mountains, after all. Our congressional Rep stopped by to christen a different kind of cat for the Utilities District, a Snow-cat purchased through grant funding he pushed through.

This critter can tread to hard-to-reach areas and plow snow to help repair crews in our usually snowy mountains, which is great when the power goes out.

Continuing along with the animal theme, officials are gesticulating, coordinating, preparing as wolves expand across Northern California. And a few miles away, two folks welcomed a pair of seven-foot dromedaries (one-humped variety of camel) to their family farm.

I suppose something about my book would be a good idea, so here you go: I’m just about done editing after receiving notes from my mighty fine line editor. Next up will be a proofreading by my heroic, tolerant and supportive writer-wife, and then on to formatting the manuscript for publishing. I’m hoping for a summer release.

That’s all for now, folks.