Category: WRITER’S JOURNAL

Saturday, July 29,2023 The WEEKEND JOURNAL, sometimes known as the “Storyteller’s Journal,” “Back Pages Journal,” “Writer’s Journal,” or “Just Plain Journal,” “Notes from the Home Office,” etc is simply a place for my miscellaneous observations, comments, plans and general communication with my reader fam. The overall purpose and direction of this website and journal is to serve peeps who may be interested in the art of creative writing, either as a hobby or as a…

July 28, 2023 Just a short hello, and intro to some upcoming projects. thanks for reading! Whether you are thinking about writing as a hobby or for money, grab this FREE, quick guide to how I did it, now that I’ve had over 700 stories published. Don’s a keen observer and prolific reporter of truth, common sense, humor, & life. He’s a WRITER|HUMORIST, sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek. He lives in Nashville, Tn. He publishes every weekday morning.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2024 July is nearly gone. Planet Earth is mostly the same as I left it yesterday. Nothing I did seems to have changed it much for better or for worse. Today is Wednesday. I had been due for a physical therapy session Monday, but had to call the hospital and postpone it for a bit. Monday, the day I was supposed to go, I was advised, at the last minute, that I…

Sunday, July 23, 2023 Here’s what’s goin’ on in my life, and here’s what I’m doin’ about it. Yesterday was a calm, warm, and sunny day in Nipper’s Corner. Nipper’s corner, at the corner of Edmondson Pike and Old Hickory Blvd in South Nashville, was so named after Walter Nipper, who, besides Nashville Sporting Goods, owned a nursery at the northeast corner of that intersection when OHB was but a two-lane road with a few…

Five or six weeks at the hospital because the Multiple sclerosis I have lived with for decades was suddenly exacerbated by a stroke. My left side was extremely weak. I had been writing a lot of articles for Medium, and they shut down quite a bit, as did all of my writing. Peggy brought my laptop to the hospital room and I slowly tried to keep my real estate website (my primary income.) current. On…