This will be short and sweet.

Although I seem to manage making some resolutions come true every year, there are always items that seem to not get resolved. So, I am going to keep the number short this year.

My 2023 list of the shit I absolutely need to do:

• Walking/hiking. Getting fit and keeping fit.
• Publish my ebooks Four & Twenty Blackbirds (a collection of previously published sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories and poems) and little paper parasols (short poetry book featuring haiku, tanka, and a few examples of the form I created, the octain).
• Keep researching novel So Lonesome I Could Cry (things go chaotic for government worker Sten Mulligan when he starts looking into his friend's disappearance while visiting a national park). This will be published under the pen name Joz Varlo.
• Keep working steadily on drafts for The Strange Blue Days of Dr. Fountainbrew and Zen & the Art of Alien Diplomacy. Zen will be published under the name Joz Varlo.
• Work on more short stories and add to my novelas. In short, I need to write more.
• Figure out how to make some side cash on Vellum and Canva by formatting books and making covers for others--and/or get a data entry type part-time job.
• Heal and love myself and meditate on manifesting goodness and positivity in my world. This one may me the most important of all.
• Start looking for a new place to live and make plans to move. I know I will have to stay in Florida for the time being.

These are it. I will probably do a cross-posting on this blog spot (with some changes) on the site for Joz Varlo.

I hope you all have a fab 2023 and that you get everything you want (or at least need) in the coming year.

Peace!