by Ira | Sep 7, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Got to spend the whole day with my wife today. We drove up to wine country and tasted some delicious wines, we ate some delicious food, we swam in a fabulous pool, and now we’re prepping for a fabulous snooze. Happy Ten Years. We’ve needed a trip like this. Been a...
by Ira | Sep 6, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
It’s our ten year wedding anniversary today. Ten years ago, right around right now, we’d just gotten married and were parting it up in Maui. One of the happiest days of my life, truly. A banner day. Today was, too! I finished my fifth novel today. Or, drafting it, at...
by Ira | Sep 5, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Reporting live from the surface of the gawdam sun tonight. It’s still…95º outside at 10:30 in the evening. Got up to 112º today, and you could feel every degree of that shit. I mean, it was HOT. The hottest it gets here in LA — though there was one year, I remember,...
by Ira | Sep 4, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I’m going to finish my book tomorrow. I think. We’ll see how long these last scenes turn out, but it really is just one more little action sequence, and then the very last scenes. The wrap-up. Setup, really, for the next book, seeing as this one is a two-parter....
by Ira | Sep 3, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I’ve been with my wife for twenty years, today. That’s including the time we spent dating. CRAZY RIGHT? Twenty years. It’s wild. So grateful for her. So grateful for the life we’ve built together. It’s late, already. We just spend like half an hour just talking about...
