Here is a nice link

https://pjs-portfolio.com/my-books/ols/products/painting-the-palmetto-a-local-south-carolina-anthology-1886c0

See the work of H.L. Dowless, “Tale of the Cat, the Possum, and the Rooster” inside this anthology at the link above. Sales of this work and others are donated to the domestic abuse clinic of South Carolina. There have been many more publishing success stories that I have not included on this blog. The rest of my life leaves a few matters up for questioning, however. My great job I had last year at the adoptee’s orphanage teaching history crashed when my teaching license expired. All my principal had to do was send in a letter to reactivate it, but she didn’t. She expected me to take this 150-question test that 50% are guaranteed to fail on the outset and 25% can never pass no matter how many times they repeat the effort. What makes matters worse is that I had already taken it! Why should I be forced to do so again? Setting it up was very time consuming, and I suppose she got tired of waiting, so she simply didn’t renew my contract. So, I rode on. I spent three months teaching in Latin America. My wife took ill, so we returned to the USA for her to have surgery. Now my wife is staying with one of the daughters three hours away and I live/exist in my family’s attic room. I have another teaching job that should come through very soon. Time shall reveal all…

In the meantime one of the items I’m working on is a genuine, valid step by step how-to guide for going from zero to wealthy in the quickest time frame possible. I am also working on a poetry and a short story collection. Stay tuned!!

Inside the work above see the piece by H.L. Dowless. The entire anthology is valuable for being an unusual read to one’s liking, however.

My Latest published works!

Some of these titles are repeat publications here. The how-to information is not. I’ve had many successes being published in Anthology works and journals. Maybe my work will endure the ages long after my day, right? Such be the legacy I wish to leave.

Latest success! P. 42

Page 43, here

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Lots has happened to me lately in the world of writing. I’ve had numerous success stories. Like this…

https://www.amazon.com/Venturing-Outdoors-Long-Clothes-Hands/dp/8197228221

I firmly realize it’s been a while since I wrote anything in this blog. Franky I’ve been on a personal mission to build wealth. I’m actually working on a how-to book that will reveal every small detail for working one’s way up from absolutely zero, to a quarter million dollars in the quickest amount of time possible. Grant Cardone claims he started with nothing and build a 5-million-dollar marketing business in 3 months, using knowledge alone. He probably is talented enough to pull such a feat off, but at least us among the lower 87% aren’t. I’ll wager that very few are. Anyway, it’s a work in progress and I’ll keep you posted as time moves along.

Hello Again!

Here it is at 2207 on a Friday night, and I’m alone again in the house. Since it had been a while, I thought I would drop by and check in with my blog pals. Lots has been going on since the last time I spoke. There has been much success at being traditionally published, which is the main theme of this blog. Introducing myself to all of you helps a bit as well. I munked around in Tampa for three and a half months after returning from our trip to San Francisco and our two- and one-half week cruise to Hawaii. I had a blast. Its my 24tgh big extended cruise, and we have done six small half day harbor cruises over Charleston Harbor, out to Fort Sumpter, and the historical cruises. We’ve also taken two in Savanna Gorgia, and the nice one in Miami that goes out to Millionaire Island and all of these places. We’ve been on the one in Manta, Ecuador, where you get to explore what was once a real pirate island. Needless to say, we took the Harbor Cruise in San Francisco and rode the Double Dutch Buss. To put it mildly, I love being on the water.

The big news here at this time is that there has been a fair amount of publishing success in only the past three months. A novella I wrote a few years back or so finally found a publisher. I received the 100.00 check last week. Soon as it comes out, I’ll be certain to put the link up.

I’ve had at least two poetry journals agree to publish my poetry. I’ll be putting those links up soon as they come out.

Hello again, my dear reading fans. This is one of the links. Inside you’ll find several of my latest poems. Click inside and seek out the name H.L. Dowless. Honestly, my secondary intent really is to promote this lady’s work. I admire her for mothering this journal into existence. I am very proud that she allowed me to be a part of its birthing, and I fully intend to do everything I can to help out.

My dream is to have my own publishing company, newsletter, online and physical bookstore up and running one day soon. I have four Amazon best sellers, but I feel like I need to win at least one or two literary contests of some sort or put in for and win some sort of literary award. Maybe I am wrong in this conviction, but I sincerely desire this to court conviction of qualification from my potential customers. Like I said in the story “One Day in My Hole in The Wall.” I don’t want to simply be good; I want to be DAMN GOOD!!! The kind of good that invites screams and creates unction in the new blue jeans, if ya know what I mean. There exists a huge difference in this sort of conviction. Anyway, as the other publications of my latest hit the market, I’ll be posing those links as well, so stay tuned!

Right now, I’m in limbo here in the tropics. I’m making a living going door to door giving tutoring lessons for ESL classes. I’m writing an ESL workbook and selling these writings to potential students and interested people. When the wife and I finally get our two fully crafted manuscripts ready, we’ll sell these and quit teaching. We’ve already had many interested potential buyers, so stay tuned for more in days to come. Maybe I can post links to our workbooks when they hit the public market.

2/17/2023

As is true in all of my writing, I actually live the lifestyle I encourage and write about. All of these employment gigs I have worked over the years. Basically, for all of my life I have kept myself fed, clothed, and sheltered by working survival jobs of many varieties. Because of this experience, I feel that I am an expert on the subject.

Certainly, adventurers are one group of people who may well need to know and understand the concept of survival jobs. Everyday life can be very boring. Living in the same hole, seeing the same people, working in the same place, often gets very old fast. Many people live like this for thirty years and more! I have found them from California, to New York, to Miami, to Asheville and Elizabeth City NC, and everywhere in between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. When one takes audacious chances and hits the high road wide open, he or she may well need to find paying employment quickly. He or she doesn’t have valuable time to muck around with redundant training programs, night classes, and college courses month after month, long hours at a time, and very wealth consumptive. Most of its pure Ka Ka de El Toro, intentionally designed to fleece people’s hard-earned money and create employment for elitist associates and their families, rather than any sort of realistic applicable skills study. Knowing where to seek out good decent paying survival jobs will always be of an utmost importance.

Thinking back, if I could add to the list of employment opportunities listed here inside this book, I would have to include union apprentice jobs. Here one can actually get paid while learning a valuable skill. Employees get pay raises when skills tests are passed during the classroom period. While these types of opportunities are tough to locate, and even more difficult to find available openings in, they are out there as luscious fruit waiting for us to harvest after a virtual forty-year hiatus.

The best news is that pay and benefits are fantastic! So is job security, since terminations must follow the rules of due process protocol. I have also located these opportunities in unexpected places, such as Hendersonville and Asheville NC, places traditionally unfriendly to labor unions, yet filled with citizens who well comprehend the need. In this case, this job included training for electrical work. Starting pay was 18- 23.00 an hour at the time. Other places to seek higher ranking survival jobs might be with seafaring companies. Seafarer’s International would be a good place to call and investigate. For those in love with adventure, there are always decent opportunities to score. https://www.google.com/search?q=Henry%20Lydo&safe=vss&vss=1&sa=Google+Search#ip=1

2/12/2023

Don’t know what I’ll do now. My wife’s in Ecuador and I’m way over here on the back side of nowhere with the Tuscarora.

In the meantime, I thought I’d write and publish this poetry chapbook. All of these poems have been published in various e-zines, magazines, and literary journals. Order yourself a free copy in print for only three dollars. Not only does it have poems but is loaded down with exotic photographs from many exotic places. Order a load today for the bookstand, store, package store, flee market, home library, or otherwise! Stay tuned to this little blog for more as the days roll by.

Author’s update

It’s been a little while since I wrote last. Life has been busy and hectic, as of late. We’ve certainly been a moving and a grooving! I’ll bet it surprises all of you reading something such as this from an elderly man, eh? The wife is going back to Ecuador in a few days. I must decide whether I’m going or staying. Presently, my lifeline has reached a dead end. I’m out of work, out of time, and out of direction, with few prospects at the moment, but such is the life of an adventurer, I fear. I can honestly see where I need a few acres of land upon which I may pitch my tent when these types of time periods arrive. I must live until the next gig, and being out on the streets or in the local homeless shelter isn’t any fun. It’s all a long story, but one I’ll surely share on another day and at another time. So, until then, cheers! See Ya in a few. In the meantime, check this out!

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Feel another move coming on, my book loving fans and family. Florida DON’T cut it. If you are not retired or in possession of a portable income, do yourself a favor and forbear on coming here thinking you’ll ease into something real and solid. The odds here are highly against it. Don’t vote for any political candidate who isn’t making the employment situation first and foremost in his campaign. Idealism left or right, ain’t gonna cut it here in the real world, where us real folks are scratching in the dirt with the chickens.

Saying hello

Well, we’re thirteen days into 2023. The Pale Rider is said to sit upon a green horse. How are we in our own time, to interpret this realization? This year, if I understand the information correctly, a green comet will be seen passing through the midnight sky. The color green can symbolize pestilence, but it can also symbolize money, in my own categorization. This comet has not been seen since the age of Astraea, and her return back into the heavens for the purpose of escaping the corruption of mankind. She promised to return one day in the distant future, when all of planet earth would be consumed by chaos. https://www.ancientpages.com/2020/08/01/will-star-goddess-astraea-return-to-earth-with-second-golden-age-or-apocalypse/

Already on day twelfth of this year, the much-aged uncle of my wife who we were living with, was cremated. He actually died on the second day, if I am correct in saying so. Many people had deaths occur in their own families during this time period. Might there be some sort of connection here? I’ve never noticed so much death before so early on, and I’ve lived through many a planting season already. The so-called financial experts do not paint a nice picture for the economy this year, but I like to think positive.

To me green means money accompanied by great success in all endeavors, and I want my share! Green can also mean collard and mustard greens, my favorite dishes when served with a wedge of freshly prepared cornbread. Say it out loud here to summons all of the positive spirits. I’m going to HIT IT BIG TIME, boys! I want a New York Times best seller, a literary work of long-lasting renown. I want a novel with a front paid out to me equal to no less than a fifty-thousand-dollar years’ salary. I’m trying, but one cannot accomplish such a thing without going through an agent. Landing an agent is no lean feat, to say the least. I’ve been trying for years and still have not succeeded. Its far easier to become traditionally published than to land an agent.

I have three publishers looking over some of my manuscripts. One has already accepted, and I’ve signed the contract. It’s called “The 10 Best Survival Jobs, how to get them, how to keep them.” It’s been published before but the publisher fell on hard times and had to neutralize the manuscript, and it’s based on my real-life experiences I have lived, and still am living. This is a great beginning for the year, from my own perspective. My Newyear’s resolution is to secure a dynamite career job. I have an in-person interview Monday. It’s for an entry level account manager at an insurance company. I can’t wait to work there! After 90 days or so I can make my move on starting up a true profit generating business.

Whatever value we take a calculated risk on, will be where our potential future wealth lies. If we want millions, sometimes we must commence with hundreds of thousands in potential wealth, then work our way up. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, pure and simple. Noting occurs without calculated risk. Relationships, marriage, college, cruises, writing and publishing a book for crying out loud here, driving or even walking down the highway, you name it. It’s all a hedged bet and a calculated gamble.

Don’t like your present job? Find out what you want to do, then make your move, relocate or whatever it takes to get it. Want to take a trip or live a certain lifestyle, then the perfect day and time is right now. There will never be a day in the hazy distant future when everything is nailed down perfectly. Something totally unforeseen and unexpected will always crop up, it seems. Do it now, when the possibility presents itself. That’s my motto. These are the words I speak aloud. Only 13 days have passed in the first month of 2023. Focus on the positives transpiring already.

Goodbye 2022!

It sure has been one rocker roller’s year, for sure my dear blog post family. Certainly, it ranks among the best of times and the worst of times. From a writer’s perspective, I have had an outstanding time, make no mistake about it. I want to give a huge THANKYOU to all of my reading fans. All of YOU are the ones who have made me, not me myself. Literally I have tens of thousands who make up my reading fanbase.

These past three years have been the era of the skull and crossbones. Let us pause momentarily and give remembrance to all of those who cannot stand with us now that we’ve crossed the line into 2023. In this year alone, in my own immediate family, over a four-month span there were four deaths. Two friends of the family, man and wife, died in a head on collision during these same four months. There were others who died, young and old, in the communities surrounding me. This past Friday a man I grew up with who was 49 years old, collapsed dead in my old hometown. It seems everybody I speak with has had the same experiences, so there has been what I observe to be an unusual amount of death over the past year alone, not even counting the two years previously in our dealings with Covid 19. Let us pause and give thanks to the good Lord in heaven for sparing us, since we are still yet alive in spite of this adversity. I could go on and on, but we certainly live in a true-life gothic horror era, complete with war, pestilence, tyrants, villains, and mighty fools.

At first last year seemed stuck in the mud in every way except when it came to my writing successes. The pace picked up quickly, however. I quit my head end job, hopped a plane, lived in Ecuador for three months, hopped a plane again, munked around in west central, Florida for a few days, hopped a plane again, mucked around in San Francisco for four days. Hopped a ship for two and a half weeks, sailed to HI for six days, then back to Ensalada, Mexico, then back to San Fransico. Four days later we wound up in west central Florida again. Isn’t that nice? On December 22 we rode away north to the Carolinas so we could visit a few family members. We had a real blast, but sadly, and for your good information, Covid 19 is coming back since all of my family seems to have caught it! Now its 1/1/2023 2227 and we are in King’s Island GA in a motel room on our way back to West Central Florida. Our time has been filled with cars and bars, planes, trains, busses and a few bruises, but we’ve all managed to endure to the bitter end, and it’s something to celebrate, don’t make no mistake about it. So, cheers for the stork who brings good babies. Cheers to the crow who brings bad babies, and cheers to the swallow who brings no babies. Joy to the world, and all of you, and me. Wonder how things will be in 2023! I want a New York Times best seller and to hit the jackpot. I’ll say it out loud! It’s been one wild ride of a year to be sure.