Top 13 Crunchies of 2014

(Yes, it was hot)
Rock Art in Meyers Springs,
Lower Pecos Canyonlands,
Far West Texas

I generally get the most readers for my "cyberflanerie" posts and I'll admit, those are the most fun to write-- they're just lists of  my finds. Herewith, for your surfing adventures, the crunchiest of my other posts for this blog in 2014:

1. Top 10 Books Read 2014

2. Why Translate? The Case of the President of Mexico's Secret Book 

3. In Which I Review the Review in RALPH

4. The Secret Ingredient in My Writing Process

5. It's Not Like Making a Peanut-Butter-and-Jelly Sandwich But It's Not Rocket Science Either, or, How I Made My PODs (And You Can Too)

6. 12 Tips for Summer Day Hiking in the Desert (How to Stay Cool and Avoid Actinic Keratosis, Blood, and Killer Bees)

7. Rose Mary Salum's Visionary Anthology Delta de las arenas: Cuentos árabes, cuentos judíos

Easy said, rarely done

8. 30 Deadly-Effective Ways to Free Up Bits, Drips & Gimungously Vast Swaths of Time for Writing 

9. Writers' Blogs: Eight Conclusions After Eight Years of Blogging

10. My Uncool "Cool Tool" Grandma's Recipe Box Solution to Internet Password Management

11. Why I am a Mega-Fan of the Filofax

12. How I Published My Kindles

13. A Window to the Invisible World: Master Amajur and the Smoking Signatures

>>Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

P.S. Check out my guest-bloggers' posts in 2014: Claudia H. Long, Clifford Garstang, Gin Getz, Heidi M. Thomas and my San Miguel amigo John Scherber.

Besides blogging, what else was I up to? I brought out the new book in both English (Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution) and Spanish (Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana), survived the Texas Book Festival, plus posted 3 "Marfa Mondays" podcasts. Marfa Mondays podcast #16, an interview with photographer Paul Chaplo, author of the stunning Marfa Flights, will be available for download in the next few days. 

One big change in 2014 was that I only gave one workshop, a one day on Literary Travel Writing at the Writer's Center. Looks like I'll be giving another one in April 2015. (Schedule here.) 

Oh, and thanks to some input from two hour consult via Skype with writers' guru Jane Friedman, I reorganized and redesigned my webpage, adding new subpages "For Readers & Explorers," "For Mexicophiles" and "For Creative Writers." 

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