Generally speaking, they’re all strange. Everyone’s just a fine line of weird from a ball point world. They’re human? They’re weird. They have a face? They have “two faces”. Don’t get caught up in arguing with them, they all think they’re right, even when their facts come from the schizophrenic center. A highball and a …
Author Archives: Kurt Gailey
Hump Day Help
I enjoy helping people. Recently I received some help on a project I definitely could not have done myself, all alone, little old me. I’d like to pay it forward. The project I’m talking about here that I needed to accomplish involved replacing only about six feet of flexible line for my fuel delivery system. …
We Call Louder
Sometimes they don’t answer. We call a few times. Then we call louder. We know they’re out there. We know it’s important that they eat the meal we’ve prepared for them, so we keep calling. Watch for the signs, you’ll know they’re there too. Birds suddenly abandoning a perfectly good tree is one sign. Branches …
Empath
Empath. Isn’t it amazing how one word can spark whole day-long monologs inside you? Or how one word can inspire conversations and debates among you and your friends? Like at the end of the Saturday Night Live skit with Tom Hanks on Black Jeopardy when they say, “Lives That Matter,” and “Doug” has something to …
New Novel
I finished another novel. When writers say they’ve finished a novel, they don’t mean finished. If you didn’t know, there are all these next steps after a novel is finished. There’s alpha reading, editing, revision, beta reading, more revision, proofreading, even writing the ever-dreaded blurb (that paragraph usually found on the back of a book …
