If you’re far along enough on my blog to be reading about me, thanks for your interest.  A Lively New Renaissance is a story whose installments will ultimately comprise a novel.  I hope to have a better title soon, and I hope even more that people will find there way to this page and make some comments about it.  I’ve never blogged before, nor ever read any fiction presented that way beyond a few samples I encountered after deciding to post my stuff worldwide.  Right now I barely know how to center titles, change fonts, or arrange other basic blog things that are probably very simple but not obvious to me yet.  Over the past twenty years or so, though, I have spent a fair amount of time, albeit sporadic, writing.  I’ve written two novels, one that I threw away, and another that needs to be totally rewritten.  Unfortunately, I kept my words too close to myself in that time, and didn’t allow myself the chance to get better through feedback.  Here is my first stab at changing that, with a new story I conceived around the middle of 2007.