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Lots of Bests in 2025

March 22, 2026 – I’m still pleased that my story “Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest” was included in Amazing Stories’s collection of the Best of 2025. But I’m less excited now that I’ve found there are 49 stories and 13 poems in the book. Since Amazing Stories publishes four stories each month on its website, I […]

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New cover for Softlife

September 13, 2025 – Yesterday I replaced the Softlife cover I made myself with a professional one by 100 Covers (100covers.com). It may take a while for the change to propagate to all sales channels, but eventually, every version will have the new cover. Next is to get more reviewers (any volunteers?).

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From rainbow to blue sky

August 12, 2025 – I removed the rainbow-colored background from the home page’s header. I have nothing against the LGBTQIA+ community, but I’m not a part of it, and I don’t want to accidentally misrepresent myself. Back when I first created the header, the rainbow was just a set of colors used by various people

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Another technical paper

June 28, 2025 – Another technical paper on which I’m a coauthor was recently published, so I’ve updated my publication list. (Note my old-school placement of the preposition “on.” I’m still a little old-school.) Not that I suppose anyone’s following my publication list closely, but I’m a bit compulsive and like to keep things up

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Cataract Surgeries

May 31, 2025 – I had cataract surgery on both eyes during April. Normal people get cataract surgery, recover quickly, and rave about their improved vision. Then there’s me. My first eye was about 20/20 after its surgery. A few weeks later, it began to cloud up, until everything became pretty much a white blur

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