Deb’s Flying Phobia

by | Jan 18, 2019 | Cool Gus Approves (or not)

Bob: I vaguely remember this. Deb: I got a flying phobia. Well, that and a snake phobia and for the life of me, I’ll never understand why I didn’t write ‘Snakes on a Plane’, first. Before I met Bob, I’d write the first chapter of a book...

On Temper Tantrums & Standing Firm

by | Jan 12, 2019 | Cool Gus Approves (or not)

This is a guest post by my wife, who is much smarter. Deb: I’ve decided that everything is about age. Bob and I got a puppy from the pound cause day-to-day life has been so boring of late. We named her Scout and handed her to our ten-year-old dog, Gus, as if we...

Writers and Their Better Halves– Don’t Do This

by | Jan 9, 2019 | On Writing

Writers tend to be insecure people. Don’t believe me? I don’t think you do. Why not? Seriously? Geez. But we can learn to be better. The two videos in this post are prime examples of what NOT to do. The first illustrates an important rule: What not to gift...

A Procrastinator and Believer in Making Luck Backwards

by | Jan 8, 2019 | Survival

Foreword by Bob’s Wife to The Procastinator’s Survival Guide: Deb: If you’re like me, you don’t buy books about surviving things. Why? Probably because you think that you won’t survive them anyway, so why bother? We can call it procrastination...