Joseph Badger Younggreen Born September 20, 1927, in Paxton, IL Died December 3, 2006, in Napa, CA An only child, son of a traveling salesman, he grew up alone. Oh, he had both his mother and his father. He had playmates and classmates, but never a close friendship that followed him through his life. In college, his closest friend was Fuller. In the Army, his closest friend was Clegg. In church, his closest friend was Neil House. For various reasons, he lost all three ...
I went shopping with mum at about 1:30ish. I don't usually. But she asked and I decided it would be wise. I'm sick of her buying the same old things for my lunch. Chicken fajitas on Mondays. I used to like them but I've had them so many times they sicken me. She also buys ham. She knows I've gone off of ham. I think that's because I empathized with Tom because he always used to have ham sandwiches and he got so sick of them that he binned them the second he opened his lunchbox. So, I accompanied ...
Ah. Sunday. A day of doing nothing. Sundays are usually dull for me. I got up at around 11:20am. Would have stayed in bed longer but I was bored. Now we are watching my mother's favorite film "Pirates of the Caribbean" (We being myself and my mother) staring my mother's hero Captain Jack Sparrow. I must say, I'm amazed by the animation of Davy Jones' tentacles. They move when he does and squirm about like live tentacles. I commend the animators. We're not supposed to have it yet. ...
The world is going to wrack and ruin. I'm just going along for the ride.
I am writing a novel. That's what I tell myself, anyway. The truth is, I wrote three chapters, fast. I started them around Christmas, 2004 and began the fourth chapter in January 2005. I didn't like the fourth chapter. I needed to get to a particular milestone in my plot but I couldn't figure out a rational motive for my characters to make certain decisions that would take them to the milestone. I decided I needed to re-think all of my characters' attitudes, agendas, motives, and ...
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