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5/4/70>Shades of Grey mixed with blood<5/4/2024

Posted on May 7, 2024 by John Clark

John Clark writing what is the most difficult post since the one about my personal experience with abortion. My involvement with the anti-war movement began after I wrote a research paper in the spring semester back in 1967 when I … Continue reading →

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Sometimes The Good Die Young For A Reason

Posted on April 5, 2024 by John Clark

John Clark is way ahead of his reading goal, having enjoyed 66 books in the first three months of 2024. And, yes, I also find time to write along with selling used books, and entering sweepstakes. Retirement, when approached properly … Continue reading →

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The Maine Cabin Fever Add-on

Posted on March 7, 2024 by John Clark

John Clark pondering the sorta survival of another Maine winter. I say sorta because it ain’t over yet and I daren’t count the lost parts and number of chips and dings in my psychic paint job. We’re at that sketchy … Continue reading →

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I Came, I Saw, I Wrote

Posted on February 6, 2024 by John Clark

John Clark checking in after having survived January, albeit barely. Unlike Florida, or Southern California (although that’s changing pretty quickly thanks to that fake-news climate stuff), we have distinctive seasons, even, at times, distinctive months. That is one of many … Continue reading →

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Is That A Full Monty, Python?

Posted on January 8, 2024 by John Clark

  John Clark musing on ‘stuff’. Real Mainers are often familiar with someone who ‘knows stuff’. They’re incredibly competent, often self-taught folks who seldom have to advertise to get customers. Such individuals’ services are worth more than they generally charge … Continue reading →

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Let’s have more fun

Posted on December 7, 2023 by John Clark

John Clark: Sometime back, I posted a blog with ten story starts and invited readers to tell me which they thought would make good writing projects. Oddly enough, two of them turned into complete books last year, albeit unpublished as … Continue reading →

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Letting My Crazy Loose

Posted on October 10, 2023 by John Clark

  John Clark, happy to talk about a new anthology coming out on October 22. Dark Maine contains 21 tales, some new, others having appeared in anthologies over the past twenty years or so. Unlike Hardscrabble Kids which came out … Continue reading →

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This Too Shall Pass

Posted on August 10, 2023 by John Clark

John Clark sharing what happened a while back and how it’s currently shaking out. Several months ago, Beth’s laptop which she’d just upgraded to the latest version of Windows, locked her out. Since she’d had it since we lived in … Continue reading →

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SCBWI at 50

Posted on May 9, 2023 by John Clark

When Hardscrabble Kids came out last summer, I decided it might be helpful to join the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. I’d seen the organization mentioned numerous times in blog posts and author acknowledgments. My first activity was … Continue reading →

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I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’ February in winter blues.

Posted on February 10, 2023 by John Clark

John Clark echoing others who have posted about darkness, bleak feelings, and being stuck in a rut. It’s been a number of years since winter in general, and February in specific bit me in the backside. This year, cumulative ‘stuff’ … Continue reading →

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