Marlene Hauser
Blogs
These blogs are a chance to share with you more personally how I feel about things going on in my life and/or in the world at large. Sometimes they are directly related to my books, but most often they are not.
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Hi Everyone, As I wrote in my last blog, while Zooming with a friend some 3,450 miles away, I had an epiphany that took me back to childhood and Jane Jetson’s videophone, but a less obvious insight...
Hi Everyone, 2026! That is not the year I had in mind, not even the decade. What I had in mind was 2062, the projected year in which the Jetsons lived. Ah! Who are the Jetsons, you ask? The Jetsons...
Hi Everyone, Happy Christmas, almost! That magical, mystical, happy—oh yes—night divine! Well, many things come at this special time, and yes, it is associated with gifts, some even Great Ones, when...
Hi Everyone, Yes, it’s November and it’s Thanksgiving, a traditional time for gratitude and celebrating your harvest, whatever that may be—corn, barley, the completion of a 120,000 word manuscript of...
Hi Everyone, Perfect. Google’s English dictionary provided by Oxford Languages defines the first instance of the adjective ‘perfect’ as ‘having all the required or desirable elements, qualities...
Hi Everyone, In the last few months I have been reading The Women, a vibrant novel by Kristin Hannah. I admire Kristin’s writing; I find her novels commercial, engaging and sincere, always teasing out...
Hi Everyone, Deadheading? When I bought my home, I inherited a lovely garden—roses, hollyhocks, lavender, ivy—forty years of growth. As I took possession in a November, I wasn’t truly aware of what...
Hi Everyone, Okay, so The Fair Incognito, my work-in-progress, is done – or better said, “I’m done.” I may or may not have met my aspiration. I am told the finish line when writing a novel is a bit...
Hi Everyone, I suppose like everyone else, I am well aware of the news accounts of the impending doom and gloom (Fake News, Runaway Warfare) or the spectacular rise (Enhancement of Human Capabilities)...