I can’t tell you how many times I have updated or tweaked this About page. I’ve lost track. So if you’re confused by the comments below, that’s why. This is the umpteenth iteration of this here About page.
I also can’t tell you what you can expect to find here because I don’t know yet myself. I can tell you that in the past, what you would have found here would be a nice mix of fiction, humor, and musings, as advertised. And if you dig around in the archives that’s what you will find. The fiction has been the most popular feature, and although that makes me happy, I never intended this place to be a showcase for fiction. I intended it to be a forum for whatever was on my mind in a given week, which may or may not be best expressed through fiction, some weeks.
But that’s the past. In the past, I was disciplined about posting once per week, usually on Monday’s. These days I post less frequently, but the posts are more raw, less polished. You get the real Walt (if not the real me, since my name is not really Walt), not the hyper-gloss, pop-metal version. You get the grunge version. And now I’m dating myself, so I’ll stop. Thanks for reading. Gimme a shout.
~ Walt
Walton Walker’s Shoebox sounds like a great idea! I heard a whiny teenager the other day lamenting the “death of poetry and art” (his words) at the hands of the internet, and projects like that remind me how wrong he is.
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Ashleigh, you are obviously a wise and sophisticated person with exceptional taste. This teenager needs to spend an evening with one or both of us.
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Ha ha! I can already picture the inevitable awakening ten years down the road when he realized what a massive cliche he’s been.
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I’m looking forward to the intentionally inconsistent voice!
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Thank you! I look forward to your looking forward to my inconsistencies…or something, I think. Hooray!
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Someone once told me the grass is much greener, on the other side…
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“But I get obsessed about things on a fairly regularly basis.” I appreciate the honesty.
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I appreciate your appreciating it.
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Hey, as you know I have spent time on your blog. I liked what I saw and I like what I see. Naturally, I’ve nominated you for a Liebster Award and would appreciate your acceptance.
If you’d rather not, do not give it a second thought. It is not terribly serious, but it is a good way for you to link to people you read. Thus providing me with more people to read.
http://apenfullofvinegar.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/a-liebster-award/
The rules are reasonably simple. You write 11 facts about yourself. Nominate 11 more people and answer my 11 questions.
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Thanks for thinking of me for this, Amyclae. Look for my response in an upcoming post.
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On my non-existent list of favorite About Me sections, this made it to the top! Kudos. Thank you for something different in a big sea of the same.
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Happy to be at the top of your non-list! Thanks for the thumbs up.
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Now, I say, that is rather neatio. The story behind it all, I mean. Maybe you should open a page like that or something?
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Now, that is interesting, although I’m not sure what you mean, I think. A page like the old one, from so long ago? Giving it another go? All of these are only one question, of course.
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*laughing* Exactly! A page like the old one from long ago. What say you?
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Well, I think to do a broken-heart project right, you kind of have to have one. Which I don’t. At least not at the moment.
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*nods* That does make sense.
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I don’t follow too many blogs, but just checked out your fiction and I really really like it. Very good to meet you.
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Likewise. Thanks for reading.
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My pleasure. I will surely get around to reading more.
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Thanks! I always appreciate comments and feedback from other fiction writers so any thoughts or constructive criticisms are welcome.
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Will certainly do so. I love fiction! Just don’t find enough of it (that’s good, anyway) on WP.
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‘Observation and reflection’ – my approach exactly.
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Thanks for reading.
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My pleasure.
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Like your thing of using writing as a change and something outside your everyday life. Just starting out on WP and looking for more ways to stop what I write being about me and my life and start creating characters. Will be reading more of your stuff. Like the humour and like the style.
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Yeah, a lot of people like to “journal” on their blog, and a lot of people like to read those blogs, but it’s just not for me. I’m a little too private for that. Although I will go that route on occassion. In fact my third most read post is easily my most personal one, and it continues to get hits daily. My first characters were basically just me on paper, or people I knew. With practice, though, you start getting more creative and over time they’ll turn into their own people. Good luck with your writing. I will pop over and check it out.
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Thanks for the comments! Going to have a go with a few characters. Could take a while. Watch that space!
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I will. Go for it.
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*laughing lots and lots* That was seriously funny.
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I am very serious about being funny.
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I think you should tell everything that befalls you at home.
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Oh dear, good sir, I cannot. It would be the end of me.
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*nods* Details can be so scary.
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Hi Walt
if you don’t like to write about yourself perhaps you could write a little about the experiences that not you didn’t have in the war, the chap in the photo is a very handsome fellow and must have a story of some kind to be told.
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Yes, now that would be something, wouldn’t it? I have a feeling he might have seen some action on the Russian front.
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Hello! You are hilarious! It’s nice to meet you. I came across your blog’s link on Hugh’s Views & News and thought I’d check out your site. I am now following you and look forward to your posts. 😀
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Thank you for coming by, Vashti! Isn’t Hugh such a good-natured and helpful fellow? I enjoy his blog and I will visit yours too! See you around!
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Yes, Hugh is great! Thank you! I’ll look forward to seeing you around. 😀
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Hey,
I think “not you’re” Pictures are very nice.
No joke, I really laughed hard.
I just want to left this comment here, to tell you, that I like your blog.
Go on like this!
Your fangirl “larifarihexe”
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Thanks! You’re one of the first to mention the pics. I thought they were funny too.
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You are quite interesting Mister. And I am gonna watching your blog posts very closely from now on 😀
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Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again!
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Awesome blog. Looking forward to reading more. I could always use a good smile or laugh to brighten any day. I found your blog to do just that. Thanks.
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Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for reading!
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Of Course. Thank you for writing. 🙂
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Hi Walt
I have had a great time reading your writes, and especially enjoy hearing about Mr H.
I have nominated you for a “Daydreamer Award”
https://samaborder.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-daydreamer-award/
Sam
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Thank you for nominating me for this award! I will try to have some thinks on your challenge and come up with something. Igloo, pack of cards, feather duster…that’s a tough one. But worthy!
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I really enjoy your site and don’t get here often enough. I’ve nominated you for The Daydreamers Award and if you get to my site through ” queasypaddy ” you’ll get all the info you need. ( I haven’t figured out yet how to provide a link.)
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Thank you for nominating me for this award! ”Which international story is impacting on your thoughts, feelings or life at the moment?“ Well, that’s a bit of a trick question in my mind, as I think the U.S. is the cause of a lot of problems internationally. But anyhoo, I will give this some thinks and see if I can come up with something!
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Ahh, yes, so you saw the squirrel, and then the one there, and that one near the back and the one by the front…
I completely understand and would also appreciate it if no one pointed me out while in public, as I did the squirrels, unless they want to see me prattle on, on and on.
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We have lots of squirrels in our yard. I’ve come to think of them as cute rats.
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Exploring blogging community, here I just came across a genuine writer. The thing is in the movie, “The Field of Dreams” This blogger is like a baseball player, Perhaps choose a better half of himself. Thus, a true writer in the midst yet known.
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Hi Walt!
Prose invites you to participate in this $500 writing challenge:
https://theprose.com/challenge/2082
What say you? 😉
Henry
https://theprose.com/A/posts
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Thanks! I will take a look!
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A fun post that somehow inspired me to get up and make coffee. Thank you for following back. Whenever you can use a break, try reading one of my short stories.
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Well if I can be inspirational in some way, that’s a good thing. Thanks for coming by, I’ll pop over.
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Thank you, feel free to leave a comment when you do 🙂
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“I am interested in observation and reflection.” ….ah….and how well you live that, for example in writing about Chutes and Ladders! I’ve posted a comment there too. LOVE your comments that start this About….harkens me back to the things kids say/said — as in my kids, now 38 and 40. Just took a five day hiatus from my blog (you’re invited to meander if the spirit moves you) to visit my son and his family. Dinner time always a bit hectic as his children are 3, 6 and 8. While talking about “famous falls” that “daddy” had, and chuckling away, the three year old decided to put her little feet on the table and push back her chair — right at the time I wasy saying that her daddy was required to sit in the chair that literally had its back to the wall since he’d fallen so many times! And…you guessed it, over she went! Broken chair, frightened but not injured wailing child! Oh my — times really don’t change, they just repeat themselves in later generations at the most common level. So here’s the thing — my son’s definition at age 4 of a thumb: “The finger you can’t put up your nose!” Smiling yet? Food for your blog? Have enjoyed your site…..from a grandmother to a young dad, enjoy all these quirky times! 🙂 They’ll continue to make you smile when you’re in your rejuvenatement period of life ( “retirement” is an evil word)!
lillian
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Pleased to meet you Walt. You are welcome to visit my blog when you get the chance to. 🙂
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Likewise. Thanks for stopping by.
I will.
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Super and enjoy the rest of your weekend. 🙂
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this might be the best about page i have ever read. i am excited to dive into your blog. the reason i am not using capital letters is because, well, i am typing with one hand because i have a finger…never mind…
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Thank you thank you. Capital letters are overrated anyway. 🙂
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I’m getting kind of bored with the new High Priestess and her Palace and her cave. At least the old High Priestess is still trying to bring on a new Ice Age so the gods will come back again. I don’t think I want to write about our own struggles anymore to end the wars… You do have a point about looking elsewhere for ideas. Stopping ocean currents and redirecting lava flows is getting kind of old. I think we might observe some people wind surfing instead — seems more exciting.
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Absolutely Awesome! Your blog is great. Keep up the great work! please Visit http://www.helloworldmagazine.com sometime, too. Thanks!
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I like your sense of humor, and have nominated you for the extremely prestigious Leibster Award!! Go to http://crackedrearviewer.wordpress.com for details!!
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I thank you very much for the kind compliments and the nomination. This is quite an honor. I do fear that this would violate one of the rules / terms and conditions, though. What do you think?
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Well after reading your “about” I have no choice but to follow you. 😉 G-uno
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I seem to have missed this comment when it came through. I am so sorry, that’s such bad form. Thank you for reading, and please forgive me!
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No apologies necessary 🙂 G-uno
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I think you could start a sideline business offering dating advice for guys – ‘just imagine when she was three she stuck her finger up her ass and then she yelled at her Dad about it. In public.’
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I have read your work. i find it interesting especially Fiction. I write a blog named http://www.nehamalu.wordpress.com . Recently I have written a story about ‘The Smiling Woman’. I wanted to know if you can mention about my blog in your articles. Thank you. Please give me your email Id
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Thank you, I will pay you a visit.
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Walt, you seem familiar to me… There was an older west coast businessman on WordPress who actually had a similar looking profile of a older man. Are you as old as your profile photo? You are probably in your smart ass 60’s..? I too am an observer, but I have a wild imagination I admit.
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Well, if I were as old as my profile pic, I’d be no less than 119, as that painting of Chekhov was created in 1897. Then you’d have to add on whatever age he was at that time. I’m a smart ass, but in my 40s, so I’m a relative whippersnapper, I guess.
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Well yeah.. I didn’t know WHO was in the painting you use for profile, but this other guy used a similar artwork profile of an old guy with glasses but he was even older than me! And I thought maybe he came back to WP. ain’t no whipper snapper! He was a smart ass too by the way!
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If only.. I could edit my comments after posting them!
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You’re hilarious… love your ideas and humor..
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Thanks! 🙂
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Really great introduction to…everything. Normally about pages are kind of boring. This was fascinating and hilarious. Looking forward to reading more of your stuff.
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Thank you! This was actually a regular post which had been up for awhile before I thought it would make an nice ‘about’ page, which I agree can be a little dull. Doesn’t get too many visits or likes though so, so maybe we share a particular taste!
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maybe. You have a really great voice. I read some other stuff too and I just like your tone. Maybe it is preference but maybe other people’s preferences are wrong…either way. I’m glad you are out there writing. It is enjoyable and skillful.
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All I have to say is “Thank you”. Thank you for what you post.
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Thank you for reading, and for your kind words.
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