Hello GoodReads Member,
This is August 29, 2025 as we begin our visit. It has been a busy month for yours truly, and a challenge as well. They tell us both busy and challenge are necessary to keep us from atrophy. Do you find that to be so?

On the writing front, here is the blurb to my forthcoming book title, From My Red Chair: a Short Story Collection". Tentative release is set for the month of October.

Cover Blurb
Fiction/Short Stories
The late author, Wallace Stegner, observed that strength is measured by the burdens
one can bear. In David C. Russell’s new collection, From My Red Chair, he offers
commentary on life’s difficulties through six stories. Imagined situations and their
respective participants will appear as different from each other as dusk is from dawn.
Serenity, complaint, familial flexibility, expert opinion, and amends between associates
are viewed in the confines of created, real experience. Though each burden borne and
response chosen varies, the characters share the sense of affliction, struggle, and the
response it requires. This author offers some homemade insight through these stories
under the umbrella we call mental health.

I will be publishing to Draft2Digital, distributing to Amazon and other book venues.

Also, I was given the opportunity to write a story for the Divine Moments Christmas Anthology. I titled my story, The Silent Stars. It's set in or near Bethlehem, Israel. An older couple have run a boutique for a few years, and due to changing demographics and aging parents, decide to return to the UK. It was a fun story to create and put forth.

Reading, my wife and I are into our fourth novel by Freida McFadden, The Wife Upstairs. It's an entertaining read!

Is the season starting to show change where you reside?

For us, this is so. Nights cool, afternoons quite comfortable.

Until our next visit around mid September, read something informative and entertaining. Enjoy the good things you have been given.

Happy Hours Ahead,

David C. Russell