Musings & Perusings and Goines 0n have been published

Publication Date: Dec. 24, 2025

75th Birthday Gift Fulfilled

By Moristotle

On January 8, 2018 , in his post, “An Immodest Proposal: A Birthday Surprise Ruined in 750 Words," Geoffrey proposed that I put together a collection of my writings in book form. On several later occasions I apologized for not having yet acted on the proposal, which came from Jennifer as well. Now, at last, I can announce that I have completed the project. Or, rather, Geoffrey and I have completed the project, because he provided consultations and invaluable editing without which I might neither have completed the project nor have achieved as good results as I think we did.
    Musings & Perusings: A Moristotle Reader is available in both paperback and ebook on Amazon. 

Publication Date: Dec. 23, 2025

Goines Has Delivered!

Almost two years ago, after his retirement from blogging, Goines submitted the manuscript of his book Goines On: A self-portrait in fictional vignettes to an agent in the William Morris Endeavor agency. He never heard from the agent, so he decided to self-publish the book along with Musings & Perusings: A Moristotle Reader. Goines is grateful to everyone who encouraged him along the way and helped him get the Goines On book out. He hopes his words of acknowledgment in the book’s front matters adequately convey his thanks.
    Goines On: A self-portrait in fictional vignettes is available in both paperback and ebook on Amazon.

Both books can be accessed from my author page on Amazon.

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Highways and Lay-by’s

[Editor’s Note: Maik Strosahl is taking a rest, so I thought we’d revisit the interview he and I did on October 14, 2020.]

Interview:
Maik Strosahl,
poet, encourager
...trucker?

Interviewed by Moristotle

Maik Strosahl’s exquisite first poem on Moristotle & Co. appeared here a week ago today, and the second was scheduled for today...until I suggested that we have an interview instead, because I just had to get to know more about the poet who wrote “Irises across the Floor.”
    My questions arose from a short bio Maik sent me and from a reading of his first post on a blog he started last month. My questions are in italics.

Highways and Byways: In the Fire of This Water

By Maik Strosahl

Before getting my license to drive commercially, I worked a couple years in an Amazon warehouse picking orders. It’s a controlled chaos system intended to utilize every bit of available space, so it feels like a scavenger hunt with a scanner gun.
    On one of these many searches, I found a sobriety coin engraved with a serenity prayer for Native Americans who struggle with alcohol. I thought the message in the inscription was beautiful:

Highways and Byways: The Woodline

By Maik Strosahl

The recent coup in Myanmar brought to mind my Burmese coworkers from my days in an Amazon warehouse. Many of them had escaped the constant wars and religious persecution in the Chin province. When I was working on an ekphrastic project and looking for inspirational photos, one friend shared two watercolors painted by Chin refuges. I found them haunting and, after some research, the words quickly flowed. Here is the first of those, along with the painting that inspired it.

By Lian Tuang

Interview: Maik Strosahl, poet, encourager...

...trucker?
Interviewed by Moristotle

Maik Strosahl’s exquisite first poem on Moristotle & Co. appeared here a week ago today, and the second was scheduled for today...until I suggested that we have an interview instead, because I just had to get to know more about the poet who wrote “Irises across the Floor.”
    My questions arose from a short bio Maik sent me and from a reading of his first post on a blog he started last month. My questions are in italics.

Second novel in edRogers’ BODY COUNT series now available

By Moristotle

BODY COUNT: Roatán was published this weekend on Amazon. The story begins with Blake Harris’ team on their way to the paradise Island of Roatán, Honduras, for a well-earned vacation after their successes recounted in BODY COUNT: Killers, the first novel in the series. The island may provide a backdrop of mountain jungles and the clear, warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, but, as with most paradises, Roatán also has a snake, and Blake sees the pattern of a serial killer. The vacation turns into much more than hanging around the pool and diving on the reefs.

Help promote edRogers’ latest published novel

By Moristotle

“Readers play a significant role in selecting the winner,” says Amazon’s announcement of its 2019 Kindle Storyteller contest with an award of £20,000 to an outstanding writer publishing in English through Kindle Direct Publishing.
    Personally, I think edRogers’ latest novel, BODY COUNT: Killers, deserves to win on its own merits alone, but Amazon’s judges will look not only at the books entered, but also at reviews of the books on Amazon.