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Excerpt from Blue Rubber Pool

I’ve recently begun riding an e-bike for physical therapy following the car wreck injury. It helps with balance, muscle building, and stamina. I’m still not ready for a return to sailing. I’ve been looking at boats but there’s no point going there until I’ve a better idea of my capabilities. Writing about sailing takes the edge off. There’s a lot of sailing scenes in my novel Blue Rubber Pool. Interested? Buy it on Amazon here.

e-bike for physical therapy novel Blue Rubber Pool sailing scenes

Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.