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Attention, Readers: New Comment Contest

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These girls would be even happier if they entered my comment contest…

In keeping with this festive season of the year (I’ve always wanted to say that!), I am opening another comment contest for readers of this blog.

Whoever sends in comment No. 4,000 will receive one of my books, free–your choice of title.

Not eligible will be ads disguised as comments, using my page as free advertising space–shame on them!–or comments personally abusive to me or any reader, comments containing the f-bomb or any other profanity, or stuff that’s just too inane to publish.

If you’re still in the dark about how to post a comment, just look at the fine print at the bottom of one of my posts and click “Leave a Reply.”

Tally-ho!

Stick With Me, Please

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I’ve been distracted, lately (to put it mildly), by one of those unavoidable tribulations of life.

Without getting too much into private details, I’ve had to have my last surviving aunt transferred to a nursing home. This is something we prayed would never happen, but now it has.

She is the last of my family in her generation. When she goes, I’ll be the oldest one left–and who ever thinks he’s going to be that?

My mother had five sisters, so I was richly blessed with aunts. Two married, one became a nun, and three stayed together at their father’s house, where they were born. One by one they died. The house had to be sold. It has since been torn down. My aunt received the best care available for as long as possible. But now it’s no longer possible to take care of her outside of a nursing home.

We could not live without God’s grace. But then without God’s grace we never would have been created in the first place.

Normalcy is a good thing. Writing is the work I asked the Lord to give me to do, and He granted my prayer. So I will do it, to the best of my ability, every day if possible, for as long as I can.

God goes with us into the Valley of the Shadow. And one way or another, He will bring us out of it, and into the light.

Readers, please bear with me: normal service will soon be restored. If the next few posts aren’t up to snuff, don’t go away–there’s plenty in the Archives.

Can I Get 3,000 Hits This Month?

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Here’s Honus Wagner, who got his 3,000 hits the hard way. I wonder what he was thinking, when they snapped this picture.

After two months in a row with 3,000 hits on this blog, it wasn’t looking good for November. Like, where did everybody go? And who’s going to visit here on Thanksgiving?

But thanks to a huge shot in the arm on Friday, I can make it if I can get about 100 views a day for the next eight days. This is coming close enough so that it’ll sting if I miss.

Can I make it? I will try to provide you with interesting reading over those eight days. I’ll even provide advice for riding a bike without using your hands.

Three months in a row with 3,000–hey, that would be really sweet.

Hello? Anybody There?

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I don’t like to write about politics, although I did write about politics yesterday, and I suspect a lot of you don’t come here to read about politics, either.

Is that why hardly anybody’s coming here today?

Let me quickly throw out my plans for writing about more politics today, and see what else I can come up with, to try and get some readership.

While I’m doing it–hey! Come back, everybody!

Eat Colossal Amounts of Chocolate and Still Lose Weight

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How do you lose tremendous amounts of weight? Inquiring minds want to know!

So how do you do that? Beats me.

Meanwhile, where is everybody? Readers, readers, where have you gone? This month is shaping up to be awful for this blog.

But we were talking about how to lose weight while still eating whatever you want, as much of it and as often as you please.

Are you kidding? That’s impossible. There’s a product being advertised on the radio that promises you’ll lose a pound a day if you use it, but that’s impossible, too. Like, what if you use it all year? You’ll lose 365 pounds? What if you only weigh 200?

Amazing what people will believe, isn’t it? “Paying higher taxes to the government will keep the climate from getting bad!” No it won’t. Not even if you really are losing a pound a day by sprinkling Get Lost Elixir on your food.

God is not a man, that He should lie. (Numbers 23:19)

But if you can find a man who tells the truth, stick with him.

This Blog’s Anniversary

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I almost forgot to tell you: today was the 5th anniversary of this blog.

So where are my 2,000 followers and several hundred hits a day?

Nevertheless, this blog is growing, and I’ll keep plugging away at it for as long as I can.

And don’t forget, folks–my books make great Christmas presents.

Sorry for the plug, but I’m the only advertising I’ve got.

Help Me Get 3,000 Hits This Month

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Stan Musial got 3,000 hits, but even Stan the Man only did it once, and that was only in baseball.

I’m so close–just another 105 will do it.

Tomorrow is Halloween, true, but it’s also the last day of the month, last chance to reach 3,000. It’s also Saturday, not generally a strong day for this blog.

I know, I know–you want to take your kids trick-or-treating, or go yourself, or pluck toilet paper out of your shrubbery, or sneak around the neighborhood peering into windows and scaring people. Whatever. Doesn’t leave much time for reading this stuff.

Tell ya what I’ll do. If it looks like a good start tomorrow morning, I’ll let that college guy come back on here and share some of his words of wisdom. I’ve kept him out all week, so far.

Whaddya say?

‘Why Didn’t You Write Anything Today?’

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Because I’m sick, that’s why. My allergies are killing me: can’t breathe, nose won’t stop running.

But visit this blog anyhow. There’s all sorts of stuff in the Archives.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

I’ve Been Nominated for ‘One Lovely Blog’ Award

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I thank Ajoobacats ( ajoobacatsblog.com/ ) for nominating me.

The rules: 1) Thank the person who nominated you 2) List the rules (I’m doing it) and display the award 3) List 7 facts about yourself 4) Nominate 15 others bloggers. Here goes…

  1. Back in the last century, I had 4 horror novels published.
  2. I’ve now had 7 fantasy novels published, with No. 8 on the way.
  3. I am a contributing editor with The Chalcedon Foundation.
  4. I’ve been married to my wife, Patricia, for 38 years.
  5. I read the Bible every day.
  6. Way, way back, I was chess champion of Upsala College, which no longer exists.
  7. My honors thesis in college was “A Political Analysis of the Viking Age.”    And now to nominate 15 other bloggers. If I can get this computer to stop adding numbers to this list.
  8. 1. Ajoobacats 2. amanhimself 3. rivendale review 4. through open lens 5. en un rincon de la alma 6. leona’s blog of shadows 7. city jackdaw 8. comfy reading 9. johnny angel advocacy group 10. d. marie prokop 11.weavingword 12. Gee, I’m running out of names here… I’ve done the best I can.
  10. And it’s still spitting numbers at me. *sigh*  PS–Another rule: you have to let your nominees know you’ve nominated them by a post on their site.

We Did It–3,000 Hits

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Thanks to you, my readers, for the first time ever, this blog has received 3,000 hits in a month. I think this is where I’m supposed to shout “Excelsior!” And I would, too, if I was sure of what it means.

If you really like this blog, remember: it was created to generate interest in my books and helpfully recruit some readers for them. For more information, just click “Books” at the top of the page for covers, blurbs, and sample chapters. The Archives also include a number of reviews.

Anyhow, thank you, one and all. As Popeye used to say, “We aims t’please.”