We have all heard the chatter about the meaning of all of this. It may appear in causal conversations, in social media platforms, or from sermons. I predict before the end of this year, there will be books written explaining, not from a scientific but a philosophical or religious viewpoint, why the COVID-19 pandemic happened.…

As the title implies, I’m going to combine some update on my health information with some ramblings about what is on everyone’s mind, the COVID-19 pandemic. Good News I will start with some good news and that is I got another lab back on Tuesday, a 24-hour urine with a protein electrophoresis. The point of…

Once again, to break from the trend a few months ago, I have mostly good things to report. I was able to take a 5 week hiatus from chemo due to my cancer being in remission. During this break, my side effects from the chemo, which were getting way out of hand, slowly improved. I…

I really don’t have much to report but just a brief update. I just got back from two weeks of traveling, which I knew would be challenging, while enjoyable. It was great seeing family. I mentioned last time that I was starting to have significant side effects from Chemo, in the form of diarrhea, cramping,…

I have been working diligently, for over a month, doing my last edit of my novel Ristretto Rain. It is now “soaking” to borrow a term from my professional crabbing friends (btw, if you are one of those readers, please don’t use my jmichaeljoneswriter email address because it no longer works). In other words, the…

My electronic world is almost fully restored. I am grateful that FaceBook refunded the $1500 that the crook had them take out of my pay-pal account. I had a Face Book account associated with this blog (not my personal FB account) and that appears to be where the crocks entered my electronic world. I have…

Hi, it has been a little crazy lately and I will try to cram in several thoughts as quickly as I can. I sat down to do my taxes a couple of weeks ago and started but discovered that I’d been hacked. I had no access to the internet and all my e-mails had been…

Throughout my life, when asked about my dream job, I would always say that it was sitting by a fire in a cabin, on a mountain lake, writing fiction, with my Saint Bernard (my wife and kids are a given so not mentioned in this dream). Yesterday it dawned on me that I was sitting…

Good News! I have  my labs back, which looks directly at the cancer. We do this one every three months. My last one, done 3 months after my stem cell transplant, was confusing and mixed (too complicated to explain here). This one, which just came back today, was clear and shows only a “faint” trace…

I’ve mentioned here that I’ve been working on a novel for three years. I was pretty far along with it. . .  until I got sick. It got put on the back-burner when I was going through my stem cell transplant and recovery (although I did write another book, Christina Athena, during that time). I…