How the Best family reacts to the death of their patriarch. How Laura and Joey react to the death of their father. Just a small step into the Best world before we move on with the main story. As al...
2024-08-04 15:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe tale of the trip to New Zealand and some tension that is starting to develop among some of the characters. Let me know what you think.
2024-07-28 09:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostA chapter about traveling a long distance. Hopefully anyone who has been on a long, overnight flight can relate. As always, let me know how I'm doing. I'm on track to return to work mid-August, so ...
2024-07-20 15:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy medical leave has been extended until mid-August. I'm actually doing well. The original problem that put me in the hospital has resolved. I just need to work on recovering the stamina to go back...
2024-07-16 03:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostMoving toward the end of 2003 in this chapter. Some significant changes take place with the Kingsley household, Helen takes a little flight with Jake, and Matt has some concerns. Keep the comments ...
2024-07-10 00:35:15 +0000 UTC View PostAnother chapter that moves the story a little bit further along and ties up some loose threads started in the previous few chapters. A little longer of a chapter than most, but I had a lot to say i...
2024-07-06 05:18:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sure everyone has noticed my production is way up this month. Hopefully no one minds four chapters this month. There is a story behind it. I came down with a fairly serious gastrointestinal iss...
2024-07-01 05:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostI've been off work for a bit, so I've been able to do a lot of writing, thus the early next chapter. This one continues to build characters and move the story along down its path and introduces a f...
2024-06-28 01:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis was a fun chapter for me to write even though it starts off with some sadness. It covers Caydee's first day of kindergarten and goes into more detail and character building of the two new char...
2024-06-24 00:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostNo charge for this post as it is not a story chapter. A few people have expressed interest in how I keep track of all the characters in the Intemperance story. The answer is the character sheet tha...
2024-06-21 05:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostA transitional chapter and one that moves things a little further down the road and introduces some new characters. A possible squick for a some readers in this one but what I'm talking will become...
2024-06-09 06:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostNo charge for this post as it is not a story chapter but a plea for a little help. Okay, loyal patrons who know more about the details of this story than I do. I know that some people in their live...
2024-06-06 15:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostHaving a new one in the house while relatives visit. Always fun. The stories of the little balls and the pee in the face are from my own experience with having a boy after girls. Totally true stori...
2024-06-01 04:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostA very important chapter in the tale. After a long wait, things have moved along. Let me know how I did. Hopefully I resolved the Celia and her parents' situation to everyone's satisfaction. if not...
2024-05-27 01:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe next chapter moves things down the road a bit. C's pregnancy is getting more advanced and other characters are starting to come into their own. As always, let me know what you think. Remember, ...
2024-05-17 03:16:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis one goes into politics a little more than I usually do, but I'm not really looking for debates. I would just like to say that I am not writing this with the 20/20 hindsight of having already l...
2024-05-01 21:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a mostly lighthearted chapter but it brings us to the beginning of a significant period of American history, a period that affected me personally and changed many of my views. It will likel...
2024-04-27 09:17:59 +0000 UTC View PostSorry it took so long to get this one out. In addition to dealing with some personal issues of real life, I just found this chapter a hard one to get started, a bit of writer's block cramping my br...
2024-04-20 02:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostHere is Chapter 4. I am back to work now, Achilles all healed (or so it seems) after six weeks off of sitting on my ass and keeping weight off the foot as much as possible. Two twelve hour shifts d...
2024-03-04 00:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostI have been more productive this month thanks to having torn my Achilles tendon which has left me unable to work or do much of anything but keep weight off my foot as much as possible. Fortunately,...
2024-02-19 18:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe tour goes on and so do the lives of Jake, Celia, Laura, and Caydee. Did Celia's baby make it through the fallopian tube to its destination? Is she really pregnant at all? These questions are an...
2024-02-13 05:55:37 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the first chapter of Book 8 of the Intemperance series. I hope you like it. And, again, please don't read too much into cameo appearances by past characters. The one in this chapter is mean...
2024-02-05 20:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostNo charge as this is not a story chapter. Intemperance VII is now available in final edit form on both Amazon and Bookapy.
2024-01-21 06:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so the final chapter of Book VII is posted. Not much of a cliffhanger this time, only a little one. Book VIII will begin shortly, so please stay with me. As always, let me know how I did and ho...
2024-01-18 04:03:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis was supposed to be the last chapter of the book, but, as things work out, I will need at least one more to wrap it up. This one turned out to be more than I was expecting. Please... please do ...
2023-12-24 04:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostAnother transitional chapter that is bringing us toward the end of this volume. Once again, I've underestimated how much story I would tell in this volume of the series. I am nearing the end of the...
2023-11-27 03:24:16 +0000 UTC View PostMoving things along in the Celia, Jake, and Laura relationship. As always, let me know how I'm doing. Your input really does help shape the story and I value it, even if I don't always follow it. T...
2023-11-09 05:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostI had a couple days off from work and was able to finish the next chapter for you all. This one is particularly pivotal to the tale and covers a considerable length of months in universe, but it mo...
2023-10-26 04:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostMostly a lighthearted chapter with some seriousness at the end, it's purpose to show how life for the characters is moving on after the events of 9/11. Everything about Wonder Woman that was writte...
2023-10-20 23:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the latest. I'm trying my best to move us on from one of the most significant events in recent history. Also, the story of Matt getting caught with marijuana at the airport checkpoint is a ...
2023-10-11 14:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post