2025 New Years Stories and Poem

Happy New Year everyone. I finally put together some stories and a poem for you. They’ve been collecting for several weeks now and I finally gathered up enough of them for a decent audio book show.

I hope everyone had a nice holiday season but it’s back to work now. I don’t have much going on in the news commentary area either as it all seems to be the same old news rehashed over and over again.

I had a quiet holiday season as my family made other plans rather than come visit me so I did what all modern grandparents do these days. I used Facetime on an iPad and made phone calls to visit remotely with my scattered children and grandchildren.

The weather here in Virginia was up and down like a roller coaster. Thank you climate change. My home heating bill thanks you. I suppose it could be worse. We could be living in the Transnistria part of Moldova right now, who just had all of their heat and hot water turned off due to the spat with Russia and Ukraine shutting off all of the Russian gas going through their country.

This isn’t the only region or country over there falling on hard times because of all of this so we should be thankful for what we have. Those that have it anyway. With homelessness up by eighteen percent in the U.S. in 2024, there are a lot of people shivering right here under our noses.

In other news, I finally finished the edits on my book, Fugitives in a New United States so it is now safe to read without incurring punctuation and grammar mistakes. I plan to offer it on more self-publishing platforms this month to get wider distribution. Once I have all of that started, I will start writing the sequel. I haven’t quite come up with a good title yet but I should know something in a couple of weeks.

The sequel picks up where the first book leaves off. Our two main characters head out to rescue doctor James’s two sisters who are in a forced labour camp in northern Virginia. Once they are rescued, they all have to escape back up north and make it across the northern U.S. border into Canada. There will be plenty of action adventure, much like the first book. I may even write in some romance beyond the now married main characters. Who knows yet. You’ll have to read the first book and then wait for the second book, which I hope to have out by the end of this year.