I made some revisions, and the newest version of Improvising to Beat the Band is currently available on Amazon.

You can get a complimentary copy this Sunday, April 25. 

Here's the link.

Enjoy!

I just watched the 2020 documentary Mystify Michael Hutchence.

I'm sure it was painful to make, but I'm glad they did. It was information that I needed to know.

Having been hit on the head, around 1992, I…

I got my second shot earlier in the week. I'm getting over the reaction to it. 

Sometime over the next couple of weeks I should be fully immunized against the covid. 

Getting the second shot wasn't as trippy…

I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine today. 

A personal note: my grandmother passed away this morning, at age 100.

Bitter irony that my grandmother died on Friday the 13th.

Thanks for letting me share.

I'm looking for beta readers for the first chapter of my next book, Water Never Boils in Bayou Wyrdbury: A Dracula Story. Expected release date of Halloween 2021.
The first chapter is about 20 pages long. I've only got about…

I used to be up on my climate change infomercials, but it's been a few years, so I thought I'd catch up by watching an Al Gore video this afternoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQeok_5j2So

Turns out, I had missed a lot…

"When you sing

there is no distance 

so let your love

be known"

--Bono

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B92YsciHcUu/?utm_source=ig_embed

Thanks, Bono!  :)

What to say? Al’s impersonation of Bernie Sanders could have been mistaken for Bernie, to my ears, except for a little bit of the speech’s wording. Both Al and Lawrence broke out with their original accents. Lawrence said that he…

Email me at wendylanders@wendylanders.com.

I'd love a chance to correspond with readers about Improvising to Beat the Band.

I went to Pima's Zoo Lights night, and I'm really glad I did. It wasn't that crowded, although attendees said it had been in the past. There were free cookies and cocoa. I got a complimentary picture made (not with…

Work Without Hope, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in The Bijou: An Annual of Literature and The Arts in 1825.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair— 
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— 
And…