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August 10, 2025: Meeting Deadlines

Okay. So the deadline for the People’s Paper newspaper is the tenth of each month. Today I again met this deadline; although I presumed that I’d let it go by. I ended up making time yesterday, to write the first draft, and today, to revise it. I wrote it after thinking about my readership. There are people out there who I imagine like to read what I wrote. I don’t have any idea who they are, but I am meeting deadlines and writing for them.

I ended up writing about the Alaska State Fair theme, which this year is Reach for the Stars. And in the context of this theme, I wrote about what I’ve been doing to get ready for the fair.

Getting ready for the fair has become a huge job. It begins this Friday – and then I will not be doing much else.


I did work on Shelf Life this morning, on the section in which I am writing about seniors and the senior center. I’m nearly done with it. I do talk about the place being mismanaged, but I don’t include any names. And well, if it does go down the tubes, then no one can sue me because it will then be evident to all that I have told the truth.

I’m next going to write about the books to the villages program.

Pete and I worked together on a pitch letter for NPR’s Marketplace. Pete wrote the first draft, I made some major editorial changes, and he did the copy editing. In this pitch letter, we answer the question, why do you want us to further promote your project?

I next worked on the bee box; this is what we call the yellow newspaper box with bees on it. As I was working, I had this great idea, which is to contact the Frontiersman Newspaper and see if they would like to have us place a box in front of their booth. Pete was initially resistant to this idea because, as he said, this would just be an additional box that he’d have to stock. I don’t know why he changed his mind, but the change in his point of view was near instantaneous.

I decided to go with Pete to town and work on the books while he spent time in the gym. I discovered that I’m about done for now with organizing materials for the Alaska State Fair, so I instead worked on cleaning the fiction and nonfiction books.

Pete returned and we went to Lowes where we purchased a handcart, so as to make book distribution quicker and easier. The counter help got (in my estimation) a failing grade when it came time to pay our bill. And the counter help was no help at all when it came time to figure out the BLBP tax exemption status.

They seemed sullen and rude. Then on the way out, Pete began talking with them both about the book project. My gosh, it was then, personality wise, the difference between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two were in full support of the BLBP, our feel good project.

Next: 215. 5/11/25: Hi ho Hi ho. It’s off to Bed we go

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