They don’t seem to understand the concept that their headlights reflect the light back to them in the fog.

Hi all! I'm a local independent author living in Kenmore, WA. Last year I self-published my debut novel, Critical Balance, in August. Since then I've been hard at work on the sequel.

2026 has been a hard year. In January I had to put my sweet cat of 17 years to sleep due to kidney disease. It was awful. Then in the spring we had to move out of our home and find a new one. That took over two months during which time we had to live in Airbnbs and hotels. We finally found a house, moved in, and then my wife got laid off from her job because her position was replaced by AI.

Despite all of that, I managed to finish the first draft of the new novel, Citizen Zero, and now I've finished the second draft. I was hoping to get it published this year, but that doesn't seem realistic at this point, as I still want to send it out to alpha and beta readers, get feedback, and then do at least a couple more revisions. My debut novel went through seven revisions before I felt it was ready to publish.

I'm over the moon that I've made so much progress on this book! It was a lot of work, and at times extremely difficult, but it was also a joy to create. I can't wait for people to read it, and I'm especially looking forward to hearing what readers of the first book think of it.

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Balance-Lex-Starwalker/dp/B0FMCKXNDG

We are lucky enough to have a view of Mt. Hood outside our place. Twice a year, I try to catch it when the sun comes up directly behind the peak. Here was this morning’s photos and timelapse from that event. I used an old Nikon P900 with a sun filter from a telescope to capture these.

hi friends!! with my roadtrip FINALLY coming up, i wanted to pop on and ask for your favorite vegetarian spots along the northern california, oregon and washington coasts. i have looked through google and yelp and even searched in this reddit, but wanted to ask for any fav reccomendations!! i am veggie but my boyfriend is not, so even just somewhere with one good vegetarian option is fine with me! so exited to finally visit the PNW and thanks in advance for any help🖤