Books, Blogs and Butterflies

Hello Neighbours,

Trying to catch up. Have had trouble getting to sites, making any kind of contact, etc. Definitely a non-geek, me. So I am a retired journalist, teacher, book editor and courier. Slowly, slowly I will get the hang of this. That’s why I joined Blogging 101. Thank you Word Press. Found you just in time.

Yes, I read five blogs here, and I enjoyed the read. Also the finesse that some folk already have on the mysterious techno-stuff. Some nice looking blogs. I also read blogs about e-booking, self-publishing, and the whole (also mysterious) realm of  blogging, branding (I always thought that was what cowboys did), and (omigod!!!) marketing!!!

Maybe tomorrow I will find my attempted comments and contributions somewhere in this (also oh so mysterious) realm. (As one blogger noted: I can’t keep up with all this reading. My sympathies, and oh my aching eyeballs.

See ya.

(Now how the heck does this go from my site to blogging 101 site? Well, I did add blogging101 to my tags. Fingers exed.)

Streamlined my web page

to books, blogs and butterflies.

But lots yet to do.

Today I begin the grand experiment: Blogging. I’m doing this because I wrote a bunch of poems by way of saving myself from going completely off the edge. You see, my wife has Alzheimer’s, and I began to feel the stress — and the fatigue! So I wrote poems to say what I was feeling and what I thought my wife was feeling. Now I have enough for a book, which I have ready to publish — as soon as I get the hang of this blogging thing, and learn how to make the ebook/print-on-demand thing work. I’m at hwbrycewrites.com. So, Hello Everyone.

Hello. This is my blog where I will publish my articles, aphorisms, work samples, and so on.

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Hello everybody. Welcome to my world.

You may wonder why I have two worlds, that of the old and that of the young. Well, we interact with both ages every day. We draw inspiration from both every day. So it seems natural to me that we can and probably should write for both of these age groups, if we can indeed categorize them as groups, as well as for all the “other age groups.”

The older age group writing came to me out of necessity. As you see, from my wife suffering from Alzheimer’s. As for the two listed younger age group books, I wrote them decades ago. I still think the experiences of the characters in them apply.

I hope this makes sense to you.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

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My Aphorisms:

In the 1960s, while teaching Liberal Studies at Acton Tech in London, England, I wrote pages of aphorisms. Then I hired a girl to type them out. They sat in my desk drawer until we moved to Worthing where I signed on as a reporter, covering general news, courts, and city hall. Here is an aphorism that has inspired me to write today. It’s only common sense, but the follow-through is sometimes tough.

“What you start, you must finish.”

Right now, I have started this web site, and I am working to finish it (at least in its initial working stages). I plan to add aphorisms as I go.

Thank you for listening.