I'm not dead yet.

By J.D. Ray · Nov 15, 2021 · 818 · 2
  1. Life has been complicated for months, but I'm not dead yet. I'm also not writing, but that's another story.

    Wait, what...? No, never mind.

    I stayed up WAY past my bedtime last night and finished "Never Leaving Laramie" by John W. Haines. If you like true-life adventures (think Rinker Buck, et al), written eloquently (Robert Traver, etc.), put this collection on your list. I say "collection" because it's a series of short stories about his adventures around the worlds over a couple decades, ending in tragedy (that he tells you about right up front, so no spoilers here). The entire collection hangs together because the stories are sequential, and have the common theme of him returning to places or people after a trip, and always referring back to Laramie.
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  1. GrahamLewis
    If this were the opening to a short story, I'd be hooked.

    I hope things are okay, or if not okay, getting better.
    GrahamLewis, Nov 16, 2021
  2. J.D. Ray
    Things are generally fine. All I have are first world problems. In July, we bought a house and moved out of state. But we needed to sell our Portland house after that, so it was a lot of back-and-forth to get that ready for sale, and a lot of work that I was not properly prepared for. And in the middle of it all, my wife had knee replacement surgery, leaving me to do a lot of the work myself, making the six-hours-each-way trip every weekend for a while. Now we live in a big house full of boxes, and we're trying to settle in, recover from exhaustion (and knee surgery), and start living our new lives. But, despite the fact that the new house is a bit of a fixer, we have an amazing view and lots to look forward to. Or, rather, "lots to which we can look forward." This is a writing forum, after all. ;)
    J.D. Ray, Nov 17, 2021
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