Delighted to share in a fellow-blogger’s publication celebration 🥂

Hello friends & fellow Bloggers!  I hope y’all’re doing well on this fine Friday.  The weather here in middle Tennessee is damnear perfect today.  It’s a mild, partly sunny 80 degrees with a sky full of wispy white and fluffy gray clouds being pushed along by a gentle, almost autumnal breeze here in my little corner of the world.  I’m on cloud 9 myself right now.

Over the years, I’ve had a few poems published online and in a couple of college literary journals.  Of course each published piece provides a measure of pride.  I think I’m a better short story writer than poet, though, so the fact that I’ve never succeeded in getting any of my stories published has long been a sore spot for me.  Guess what?  That changes today.  Independent publisher Z Publishing House has graciously included my story “Sick Day” in this year’s Tennessee’s Emerging Writers