Hey, Everyone,
- Michael Jay Tucker's explosive-cargo
- Oct 9
- 3 min read
So normally I would be posting an episode of my travel blog today, but I need to chat with y’all on a couple of other topics.
First, I’m going to be out of pocket next week and part of the week after. Rather than start a whole new series and then interrupt it for a week or so, I’m going to do something a little different. I’ll be posting today and Sunday not a column, but rather collections of some of my photos and AI videos. I hope you like them — or at least tolerate them. :-)
Second, we have a new development. I’ve got a couple more series coming up — one about our disastrous trip to Winfield, Kansas (argh), and another about getting our Casita. I’ve told you all about what a cool little building the Casita is, and how I use it as my office, but I’ve not gone into detail about how it came to be. Believe it or not, it was kind of an adventure... with a couple of weird bumps along the way.
After that, though, I may be starting something very new. It’s probably not going to be here on Facebook, but I’ll be posting links to it.
So what am I up to? Well, one of you (hi, Denise!) asked me if I’d like to write something on... get ready... Michael the Archangel. (No, really. The guy with the wings and flaming sword.)
About the photos: First, a goofy St. Michael to go along with my new project. Second, Martha at dinner during our recent trip to Corpus. Rather a fun town. Third, one of my experiments in quasi-macrophotography (a.k.a., taking such close close-ups that you could count an beetle’s eyebrows.) This was from a cactus near Llano, Texas. Fourth, a Texas sky at sunset. This was from October 3, 2025.
I’d never thought about doing a thing like that, but as I got into it — and started looking at all his background, mythology, and history — by Golly, by Gum, I got really interested. And before I knew it, I had a perfectly enormous document on him. Like, 190 pages.
As I say, I’m not going to post it here on Facebook. Even in bite-sized chunks, 190 pages is just too big. (I make y’all suffer enough with my drawn-out series as it is.) But I will be putting at least chapters from the first draft on my blog, which, just to remind you, is here: https://www.michaeljaytucker.com/blog. And, as I say, I’ll be posting links to it.
After that, I’ll be turning my take on Good Old St. Mike into a self-published book — probably on Amazon. Stand ready to buy a copy, or at least tell all your friends about it. (Insert dollar-sign emojis here.)
So, everyone, you’re about to be Angelized! Stand ready to dodge falling feathers!
Cheers,
mjt
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Either way, thanks hugely for dropping by the blog :-)
~mjt
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