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6-3-2022 Chasing a Rainbow Update:

The next Chasing A Rainbow Update:

A few weeks ago, I finished the first draft. Currently sitting at 83,395 words and 258 pages until I open it again and start to kill off some information that I let out too early to my beta readers. I have had two of three beta readers comment back. Everything I have read has been excellent advice to make the project better. It will take me a long time to review and correct 783 comments. Yes,…

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4-22-22 First Draft is Completed!

4-22-22 First Draft is Completed!

Chasing a Rainbow first full draft of book one is completed. I know it seems like it is taking forever, because it is. I am not the prolific book writer a friend of mine is. Daisy Shell will write seven books a year. I thought that was crazy until I thought about it. That is a skill learned with unmatched talent. Where I write a chapter, then a second, a third, then learn a new skill, just to…

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3-28-22 I have a flaky problem?

I have a Flaky Quandary...

The Flaky story.

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1-14-22 Reading update: "In His Wake"--Authors, stories, ideas...

1-14-22 Reading update: “In His Wake”–Authors, stories, ideas…

I just submitted my book review of “The Good Junkie” to Amazon and Good Reads so they are out there for you to see They are both the same. I just found out another one of my Beta Read Authors published her book “In His Wake”. I just purchased it on Kindle and will re-read it to see what changes she made. I will post that review in a week or two. Available on Kindle now! Have a good…

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Into The Unknown

Interesting observation…I am on Instagram plus most other social media. It started in 2012 when My GM asked me to make a webpage for the golfers to be able to message me directly. With that, I could link my posts with several media sites. So, on Instagram, I have 91 followers I picked up two today. (Aren’t I special.) With those 91, I actually know 15. So, 84% plus or minus are unknown. The…

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I'm Reading 'The Good Junkie' by Leah Tilley

I’m Reading ‘The Good Junkie’ by Leah Tilley

Seems weird for me to post a book. This one was just published this past weekend on Kindle. Click the link for more information. The Good Junkie by Leah Tilley I’m Reading The reason I am posting is that a few months ago I started Beta reading to learn more about writing. Leah asked me to read a chapter for her. So it was close to the end of the story and then I wanted to know more. ( Actually…

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7-23-21 Rewrite in progress. Chasing A Rainbow

7-23-21 Rewrite in progress. Chasing A Rainbow

I am 70 pages into the rewrite without incorporating the original 117 pages yet. The edit recommendations changed the entire format to a novel. Here are the first two paragraphs. Joe and John are dressed in golf attire that would gain entrance into any elite country club in the nation.  They leave the quiet street and bright sunshine to open the door to Hammond’s Restaurant and Bar where they…

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6-23-21 Chasing a Rainbow (book) goes to editing on Sunday.

6-23-21 Chasing a Rainbow (book) goes to editing on Sunday.

It’s like sending your child to the first day of school. Mark Novotny CGCS

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6/17/21 Lunch with friends...

6/17/21 Lunch with friends…

Tuesday I went back to Westchester Golf Course. Actually the Olive Branch Pizza for lunch with friends from the past decade. The time to catch up was wonderful and I even had a chance to say hello to a few of my old employees. The Pizza was great for a thin crust. Being from Youngstown where thin crust didn’t exist when growing up it is just not my preferred cup of tea. But I did down it while…

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5-8-21 Shot one and done!

5-8-21 Shot one and done!

8:45 I left the house for my Covid shot. I decided on the J&J just because it was a single shot and going anywhere is just a major pain. Drove in got in line for my 9:30 appointment, checked in got the shot in the drive thru. Went to the waiting area at 9:23 for my 15 minute. Home by 10:00. If anyone is thinking this is hard, forget it. Never left the truck and didn’t have any problems. They were…

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Am I Goofy or What? The Clock Starts Now!

Am I Goofy or What? The Clock Starts Now!

Ok, three years ago my sister was watching Hallmark Channel Movies. So, to be in the conversation instead of just listening to a long explanation of which I know nothing about, I started watching. Now about a million movies into it I have created photo flash cards to learn actors names (since that is what my sister remembers). I am versed in most Christmas movies, Spring movies, and probably the…

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Is This Stupid or What??? The Clock Starts Now!

Is This Stupid or What??? The Clock Starts Now!

Ok, three years ago my sister was watching Hallmark Channel Movies. So, to be in the conversation instead of just listening to a long explanation of which I know nothing about, I started watching. Now about a million movies into it I have created photo flash cards to learn actors names (since that is what my sister remembers). I am versed in most Christmas movies, Spring movies, and probably the…

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Possible entry to "the book"...

Possible entry to “the book”…

Mahoning Country Club about summer 1985 first golf course job. My Superintendent boss ‘Dave’, a degreed mechanical engineer and excellent mechanic asked me to give him a hand with a backhoe/front end loader he was having trouble with.  I asked what was the problem?  He stated that he was having hydraulic pressure problem and didn’t seem to be getting pressure to raise or operate the boom…

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I think I'll write a book.

I think I’ll write a book.

I think I’ll write a book. Not that we need more literature from an obscure nobody, but it should get me out of the funk I have been in for the last couple of days. Maybe it’s because it’s starting to wear on me that I can do less than 5% of what I did just a few years ago. And actually, I have been asked for several years by golfers “When are you going to write a book?”The truth is that I had a…

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11-16-20 Thought I was done...Wasn't expecting this.

11-16-20 Thought I was done…Wasn’t expecting this.

Monday I was hounded into attending the Central Ohio Superintendents Association annual meeting. I haven’t been to a meeting since I lost my assistants in 2015. Just wanted to keep the course operating smoothly.

I found out why why when they presented me with…

Wasn’t expecting this nor do you go after this award. It just gets awarded after a lifetime of work in the industry. I am very…

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8-21-20 Last Day at Westchester

8-21-20 Last Day at Westchester

Just letting it to be known formally that I am retired from Westchester Golf Course. After about 25 years here my back, knees, shoulders have decided that I am done with almost everything including work. So, since that date I have been filling out paperwork for disability and doing what I can around the house. No longer am I able to do what I enjoyed doing for years.

So, it has been fun,…

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5-13-20 Copy and Paste

5-13-20 Copy and Paste

Friends and colleagues,    Golf has now been given a “yellow light” to reopen golf courses in all 50 states, which is reflected in our latest forecast of 95% of courses being open for at least some level of play by next week. There are still some local government orders keeping golf closed in metro areas like New York City, Washington D.C. and Chicago. Golf retail, both on- and off-course, is also…