Lilacs in the trash,Cold tears wet the black plastic.They twist-tie their past. (Here’s the long explainer behind Haiku Wednesday. tl;dr? Just roll with it.) I was crooning along with my favorite Bonnie Raitt song, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” when CC took off her noise-dampening headphones and asked why I like sad songs. Well,Continue reading “HW: Lilacs”
Author Archives: JT Hume
Da Cubs
Character, they say, is something you build when you lose. I’m a Cubs fan. I’ve been building character for over thirty years…with one notable exception. My love/hate relationship with the Windy City Northsiders began when Cassidy and I were first married and living in the far-off land known as Sarpy County. While we had muchContinue reading “Da Cubs”
Podcast: Reality
Quick note to let our subscribers know there is a brand new writers podcast for your listening enjoyment. CC and I chat about how we writers shape the Universe within our books, and we use two of our favorite movies that show the rewards and risks of maybe going too far. Are we right orContinue reading “Podcast: Reality”
Podcast: For the Birds
Quick shot to let followers know that CC and I just posted a hilarious podcast (funny only to ourselves, of course). We sing and laugh about birds and cats and bedtime and 1970s soft rock icons. Yes, really, we sing! No talk about writing in this one, but we had fun, anyway. Click here orContinue reading “Podcast: For the Birds”
Haiku Wednesday: Mickey’s Mouth
Steamboat Willie ateSteve Rogers, Up, Leia, Bart.Merchandised Heroes. March 2020. The pilot light was barely lit under my Coleman creative furnace. My public life was scattered in all directions, from the federal government’s homicidal indifference to COVID to the Governor’s state-wide lockdown to me being drafted (literally) into a new job. My comfort zone wasContinue reading “Haiku Wednesday: Mickey’s Mouth”
Fear
Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me. The mantra is from the Dune books by Frank Herbert. A treatise on the environment, as a teenager I interpreted Dune as the danger of politicians who view themselves asContinue reading “Fear”
Reality
CC and I think we’re getting our feet under us on the podcast thing, and we appreciate your patience as we muddle through. We’re devoting this Sunday’s (April 11, 2021) episode to something light: Reality. We writers love to dabble in reality and rules and the laws of physics, so we’re going to chat aboutContinue reading “Reality”
Ouchie!
Howdy hoo, neighbor, and hope this finds you well. If you’re me, the last five words there have snuck into a hundred or so emails over the year as the pandemic closed in and changed so many lives. I admit I had a growing certainty that getting COVID was a matter of “when” versus “if,”Continue reading “Ouchie!”
Hola!
Cassidy Carson (CC) and I have been doing this writing thing for a few years, and we express ourselves on different planes of creative energy. CC plots and plans and outlines and draws on a host of personal experiences to enrich her prose. I rush headlong where angels fear to fly, and either crash orContinue reading “Hola!”