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Writing, Reading, and Rural Life With a Border Collie


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HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

Or is that, Here ye? Here ye? 

‘What peanut butter?’

Never can keep those two straight. But Her Momness says one of those phrases works for an announcement type thingy. So I thought I’d letcha know that we’re kicking off this new year thingy with an announcement. Ready? Good. Here goes:

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‘One Last Wave’ Worth the Ride

One Last Wave

By Kent Ostby (Indie author. November 2023)

Pages: 280

Genre: Fiction

“Nothing is impossible if you are too stupid to give up.”

Colt Weiss is a surfer who’s “built his life around the waves.” He lives in central California’s Arroyo Grande and tends bar at Ultimates Surf Shop & Grub. (Think Pismo Beach’s Panchos.) Courtesy of a Secret Lies TV episode, readers soon discover that Colt lost his first wife to cancer. He’s lost other women to The Grim Reaper, too.

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Ringing in 2024 With Random Awesomeness & a Maybe!

Happy New Year!

No idea what that means. Today is pretty much the same as yesterday, right? Barking at the neighbor’s cat. Snoozing in the sun. Long walks with that stupid orange jacket thingy Mom makes me wear in cold weather. 

But Mom keeps skipping around the house chirping about “Happy New Year.” So annoying.

But you know Mom.

Anyway, we thought we’d kick off 2024 by focusing on three recently read books that are mostly extra tasty. (Well, it was mostly my idea. Mom helped. A little).

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