Good Morning-good morning! Spring is at hand, as most of our driveway is now dirt and no longer covered in ice. Yesterday was a beautiful day for our valley with clear blue skies and our local temperatures reaching 40 degrees. Nice to be in Alaska on such days and have the freedoms our country offers us. The house is quiet, all the animals are asleep and the floor heater at my feet is working. Having frostbit them several times the warmth feels good.
I've been following the news from around the world and the U.S., and it feels much like a repeat of the 1960-1970s, reminding me of what my mom used to say, for she had lived through 9 decades. She spoke on how humanity just kept repeating the same mistakes over and over again, didn't seem to learn anything from the past. She was a great lady who experienced racial persecution at a young age, lived through the great depression, World War II- Korean War-Vietnam and Desert Storm, outlived 4 husbands and raised 4 children mostly on her own. Yesterday, I was reminded by one of my children of how I am getting older and might consider writing down the Casselman family history to leave behind so the stories could continue to be told. So, as a side project I'm going to be starting the "Casselman Family Chronicles" to leave for all my grandchildren so they'll know who we were and not forget the ones who came before.
I thought I had lost one of my manuscripts that I completed a draft of in 2012. I mentioned this before I believe, in how I found the CD containers but the CDs were missing. This is the story entitled, "Stronghold" and is the 2nd book in the "Badge and the Cross" series. It is based on my 3 years as a Skagway Police Officer. Anyway, turns out I had sent it to my publisher sometime ago, but the fire that struck his building had destroyed the CDs. But, being an intelligent man, he had sent it up to the Cloud and I have absolutely no idea how that works. But, he has sent the manuscript back to me for final editing and I look forward to diving back into it. "Rookie" the first book in the series, based on my time as a new police officer in Dillingham, Alaska and basically working in a town we officers had nicknamed "Dodge City" for the wildness of the place, will be published soon. Hopefully in the next month, as the publisher is working on the cover right now. I plan 5 books for the series, each one using fictional characters but with mostly the actual police cases I worked. As I've said before "Homeland Security" was supposed to already been out, but reviewing the proof copy the publisher sent me, it needed some work. Mona is editing this for me and boy is she good at it and we haven't squabbled yet over the changes she is making. Apparently I get a might long winded at times, so I need to work on this. I've learned that for a writer, the manuscript can become like that extra child in the family as it saps up one's thought, blood and sweat.
I noticed yesterday that my favorite TV series, "Blue Bloods", story of a cop family in New York City, is being brought to a halt. I think its run for 10 seasons. Tom Selleck is the main star and he's had a very successful acting career. For those of you who might not remember, he started off as the "Marlboro Man", advertising cigarettes on TV. His career took off when he made the TV Movie, "The Sacketts", one of my favorite westerns. Then came "Magnum P.I." and a lot of movies to follow. I've followed his career somewhat and found him to be a pretty good man also, a caring man who does a lot for others. He did a mini-series for TV titled "Wings of an Eagle", if I remember right. A world War II story of a marine officer island hopping in the Pacific. Great movie and I highly recommend it for you Selleck fans.
Here's some news headlines you may want to follow up on: "Illegal Border Crossings Overwhelming Weary Border Guards"...."Germany Won't Declare Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization, Which Has Infuriated Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S."...."Venezuela Gives U.S. Diplomats 72-hours to Leave the Country, Blames President Trump for its Blackouts."...."Mumps Outbreak Forces U.S. to Quarantine 2,000 People".... "Iran
I thought I had lost one of my manuscripts that I completed a draft of in 2012. I mentioned this before I believe, in how I found the CD containers but the CDs were missing. This is the story entitled, "Stronghold" and is the 2nd book in the "Badge and the Cross" series. It is based on my 3 years as a Skagway Police Officer. Anyway, turns out I had sent it to my publisher sometime ago, but the fire that struck his building had destroyed the CDs. But, being an intelligent man, he had sent it up to the Cloud and I have absolutely no idea how that works. But, he has sent the manuscript back to me for final editing and I look forward to diving back into it. "Rookie" the first book in the series, based on my time as a new police officer in Dillingham, Alaska and basically working in a town we officers had nicknamed "Dodge City" for the wildness of the place, will be published soon. Hopefully in the next month, as the publisher is working on the cover right now. I plan 5 books for the series, each one using fictional characters but with mostly the actual police cases I worked. As I've said before "Homeland Security" was supposed to already been out, but reviewing the proof copy the publisher sent me, it needed some work. Mona is editing this for me and boy is she good at it and we haven't squabbled yet over the changes she is making. Apparently I get a might long winded at times, so I need to work on this. I've learned that for a writer, the manuscript can become like that extra child in the family as it saps up one's thought, blood and sweat.
I noticed yesterday that my favorite TV series, "Blue Bloods", story of a cop family in New York City, is being brought to a halt. I think its run for 10 seasons. Tom Selleck is the main star and he's had a very successful acting career. For those of you who might not remember, he started off as the "Marlboro Man", advertising cigarettes on TV. His career took off when he made the TV Movie, "The Sacketts", one of my favorite westerns. Then came "Magnum P.I." and a lot of movies to follow. I've followed his career somewhat and found him to be a pretty good man also, a caring man who does a lot for others. He did a mini-series for TV titled "Wings of an Eagle", if I remember right. A world War II story of a marine officer island hopping in the Pacific. Great movie and I highly recommend it for you Selleck fans.
Here's some news headlines you may want to follow up on: "Illegal Border Crossings Overwhelming Weary Border Guards"...."Germany Won't Declare Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization, Which Has Infuriated Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S."...."Venezuela Gives U.S. Diplomats 72-hours to Leave the Country, Blames President Trump for its Blackouts."...."Mumps Outbreak Forces U.S. to Quarantine 2,000 People".... "Iran
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