A Wild Curiosity Shop: Plumstuff Reviewed in Broken Pencil

Hello, Friends – – –

Spotted a nice new review of my latest poetry/drawing collection in Broken Pencil magazine.

Review Rob Thomas call the book quirky, whimsical, playful and sardonic and likened it to a “wild curiosity shop,” which sounds about right to me 🙂

Read the full review here.

For more info on Plumstuff, check out this post:

PRESENTING: Plumstuff

Take care, friends.

Cheers – – –

Rolli

(P.S. Buy me a coffee)

A Stretchy Victorian Gentleman with Overflowing Sideburns and a Meerschaum Pipe

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You might like my brand new, darkly humorous, illustrated essay, “Mr. Grimsby,” which was just published in Cutleaf. It’s about a dark visitor who’s familiar to many of us…

Mr. Grimsby

That’s all.

Cheers – – –

🥮 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 —

🐻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

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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

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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🎁

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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

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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