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Catching Up- What’s Been Happening – Part One

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 An Attempt at Catching Up!
Ok so the question before me today is – “How do I get back to blogging again after taking a month or more off?” I think the way I need to do it is to first try to catch up with what’s been happening on my Life’s Safari over the last two months and then create some challenges for the rest of the year. Basically, there are maybe four aspects of my life that I blog about: the books that I read, the music that I listen to, the ways I attempt to turn back my biological clock and my family. My family blogging includes both my current family and my past family, I learn about through my genealogical research.

Now I will attempt to catch up on all that’s been going on in a number of posts. Here’s a brief summary of what I hope to be writing about in those posts. Read More

Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight is Back!! Yeah!

Steve Hamilton - Dead Man Running
Books From Two Favorite Authors – Steve Hamilton and William Kent Krueger Arrive!

Back in July, I wrote a post to both remind myself and to let readers know that books from three of my favorite authors were being releasedt in August. The three authors,whose books were being released on August 21st, were Karin Slaughter, William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton. Read More

EKReader Picks His Booktube-A-Thon Challenge Books

BookTube-A-Thon Challenge Books
2018 BookTube-A-Thon Challenge Book Selections

So I’m a 66 year-old man and until yesterday I had never heard about the world of booktubers. The reason may be that the majority of them are young women to whom I could either be a father or grandfather. Anyway as I was exploring  I ended up finding Ariel  Bissett and her BookTube-a-Thon 2018. Read More

A New Challenge : The 14-Day Short Post Challenge

Short Post Challenge write posts using a 15 minute timer
Can the 14-Day Short Post Challenge Get Me Posting?
I am having a dreadful time trying to make myself sit down and write posts. Right now the way my life is going sitting down for an hour plus to write a post just ain’t happening. There are too many things that I want to do instead. So maybe I should quit blogging altogether. But blogging has helped create the life that I am leading now. As a result of blogging, I read more now then I have ever read in my life. I also listen to more music at least different genres. Blogging has also kept me running, doing yoga and trying to get younger. So with all those positives that have happened as a result of blogging, I don’t want to quit blogging. What I have decided to do instead is trying to write shorter posts. Over the last several months I have realized that I get through books a lot quicker and get other things done when I set a fifteen minute timer and read. Then after the fifteen minutes is up I go and do other things for a while. All this is leading up to my next challenge. It will be a 14-Day (because it is a test run) Short Post Writing Challenge. The main challenge is to write short 300-400 word posts in 15 minutes. Then come back and edit, spell check and add media and post it, also within a fifteen minute time period. If I am successful, maybe my posting can increase to two posts written and posted per  day, ha! Hmm, I’m close to wrapping up this post and I’m not at 300 words yet……
Recapping….
Rather than ending this blog I have decided to make my blog posts shorter. To aid in making this transition, I am going to try to limit the time I have to write a post to 15 minutes and  then 15 minutes to edit and finalize the post. Finally, I am creating a 14-day Short Post Challenge. to try to make this happen! Wish me luck!