Author Archives: clubfredbaja

Be Political!

Posted on June 16, 2016 by clubfredbaja

On the list of things I suck at, you will find: Baking Math Geography and navigation Sewing Not eating chocolate Self-promotion and marketing That last one is unfortunate, given that I am an indie published author and 100% of the … Continue reading →

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One Year Later

Posted on June 6, 2016 by clubfredbaja

I am writing this post two days early.  On June 8th, two days from now, I will remember. What that will look like or how I will react, I don’t know. What I do know is that I have the … Continue reading →

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The Bag of Necessity – Why I hate purses

Posted on May 25, 2016 by clubfredbaja

Consider the purse, female treasure chest, fashion accessory, urban survival equipment. I carry a purse, grudgingly. This most non-sequitur of posts comes from a description in Stephen King’s Bag of Bones, where the male protagonist describes the contents of his … Continue reading →

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Feast!

Posted on May 14, 2016 by clubfredbaja

If you graphed the activity level of my life with Prez, you would see a pattern–peaks and valleys, stretches of empty schedules followed by periods of “too busy can’t talk now!”. Like most things, this is our own fault. Nomadic, … Continue reading →

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Wherein the Author Confronts Depression

Posted on April 29, 2016 by clubfredbaja

11:59 December 31, 2006. I am pleasantly pickled, among friends, counting down the end of the year. There are hugs and kisses. So much laughter. I am as drunk on laughter as I am on champagne. Three days later, I … Continue reading →

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Starting Over…Again

Posted on April 16, 2016 by clubfredbaja

Last week, on a beach walk with a visiting friend, we spoke of the big changes in our lives and how we were coping with the upheaval. Trish and her husband John had just been settling in to their Vernon … Continue reading →

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Words Fail Me – How to write when you can’t

Posted on April 6, 2016 by clubfredbaja

From 2010 to February 2015, I wrote as if possessed. Every spare moment was writing. When I wasn’t writing, I was thinking about writing. Even reading became difficult because inevitably I would stumble across a sentence, theme, or plot twist … Continue reading →

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We Are Still Fighting

Posted on April 4, 2016 by clubfredbaja

“Not another discussion about strong women in fiction! Haven’t we covered this topic a billion times already?” This is the response I imagine some of you will have to today’s Chronicle. I’ll even toss in a few eye rolls and … Continue reading →

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Spotlight On: Creative Ink Festival

Posted on March 29, 2016 by clubfredbaja

In the spring of 2015, the Creative Ink Festival held a one-day, “sneak peek” event, to give local readers, writers, and artists a taste of what to expect in 2016. Well, the main event is almost here and I am … Continue reading →

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Hang Onto Me

Posted on March 26, 2016 by clubfredbaja

Take a good look at the woman in the picture above. She looks happy, doesn’t she? I mean, who wouldn’t be happy in their own private pool, in the sun, with the person they love most in the world, in … Continue reading →

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