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Something new each Saturday.
Life, the universe and my circumstances permitting.
I'm focusing on 'family stories' at the moment. ("A Change of Pace: Family Stories" (11/23/2024))- Category: Family Stories
But if something else caught and held my interest during the week, that's what I'll share.
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Brian H. Gill
I was born in 1951. I'm a husband, father and grandfather. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run businesses and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters. I'm also a writer and artist.
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Many ‘how to’ books about writing and getting published say that there’s more to writing than — well, than writing. Part of that “more” is letting folks know about the writer and what the writer’s been writing. That’s an awkward … Continue reading
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Another Saturday
Despite this blog’s tagline, “Following Catholic beliefs and practices in America: one man’s experience,” I haven’t written much about what I do. How I see national holidays, space exploration, ancient history and paleontology — yes. What it’s like, being a … Continue reading
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A Fogbound Writer
I thought, for a few hours toward the end of the week, that I might have the post I’ve been working on done by Sunday. That didn’t happen. By Saturday’s end, I’d written and kept more words than I’d deleted. … Continue reading
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Unscheduled Posts and Other Changes
I faced a pleasant dilemma yesterday. My son has purchased and set up a router, replacing the oddly-malfunctioning one. That gives me access to ‘Catholic Citizen’s’ website. I could go back to my ‘Friday and Sunday posts’ writing routine. I … Continue reading
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In Conference, Out to Lunch, Gone Fishing, Whatever: I’m Taking a ‘Break’
(Meet Norbert Nerdly: my frustrations, personified.) My regularly-scheduled ‘Friday’ and ‘Sunday’ posts will, I trust, resume: eventually. Meanwhile, I will add something new to A Catholic Citizen in America. How often and when that will be depends on me getting … Continue reading
