🥮 On Loneliness — and Delicious Pastry!

Hello, Friends —

It’s been a minute.

I’ve popped in to tell you about my new, humorous essay, The Lonely Life: A Quest for Friendship in the Digital Age, which was published today in Plenitude. You might like it.

Also — I have a poem (about lunar pastry) in the forthcoming hardcover children’s anthology Whale of a Time: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, due this fall. Other contributors include Maya Angelou, Hilaire Belloc, Roald Dahl, Edward Lear and Ogden Nash, so I’m in good company. The cover is very nice, too:

How have you been?

Cheers —

PRESENTING: Animal Friends by Rolli 🦁🦖🐅🐰🐈🐦😺

Hello, Friends —

Just letting you know about my new NFT mini-collection, Animal Friends by Rolli.

Jolly birds … playful rabbits … nappy cats. It’s a menagerie.

Collect all seven hand-drawn friends today on OpenSea:

https://opensea.io/collection/animal-friends-by-rolli

Happy hunting!

Cheers —

PRESENTING: The Connoisseur (My First Collection of Literary NFTs)

Hello, Friends – – –

Just letting you know about my first NFT collection, The Connoisseur. It’s an assortment of entirely text-based NFTs – mostly poems (including the above poem), along with a handful of very short stories.

Stranded astronauts … unfrozen authors … beautiful music… There’s something for every taste – and budget.

Check out the full collection (scroll down to see the NFTs).

Cheers – – –

Rolli

🐻Today, I Am an Enormous Teddy Bear🐻

Hello, Friends —

From time to time, I am an enormous teddy bear…

As a Kinsman, I help raise funds for special equipment and travel assistance for life-saving procedures for children and adults in dire need. Like my little friend Miss Blake, above, who taught this clumsy bear how to dance.

Miss Blake is a paraplegic and wheelchair user with complex medical needs. She loves to dance and race her wheelchair.

For her 4th birthday, Miss Blake is asking everyone to donate to her campaign for Telemiracle, the foundation that’s helped her so much over the years.

Here’s the link to her campaign.

Miss Blake Spins for Telemiracle

We’d both be so grateful if you could help out.

Thank-you so much, friends.

Cheers —

I Finished My Thirtieth Cup of Coffee Then Sprinted to the Emergency Room

Hello, Friends – – –

Over at Medium, I wrote an account of the time I Finished My Thirtieth Cup of Coffee, Then Sprinted to the Emergency Room. You might enjoy it. If so, maybe you’ll buy me a coffee.

Cheers – – –

On Writing: My Q&A with The Pro Files

Hello, Friends – – –

Author Ben Human recently interviewed me for the new publication The Pro Files. If you’re curious, here’s the link.

Cheers – – –

Rolli

View at Medium.com

🎁20K Giveaway🎁

Hello, Friends – – –

To commemorate my 20,000th Medium subscriber, I’m giving away some prizes. My WordPress friends are more than welcome to participate, too 🙂

Here are the details.

Good luck, friends. And have a Merry Christmas, etc., as well.

Cheers – – –

Rolli

THE SKY IS FALLING: COVID in Four Postcards

Hello, Friends – – –

My latest humorous essay is about the early months of the pandemic, and the quest for a decent cup of coffee. It was recently a runner-up for a minor literary prize.

Read it here.

(Note: only the nicest people in the world buy me a coffee).

Cheers – – –

Rolli