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Saturday, October 24, 2026

Hasn't it just been forever?



A.B.

Hi Rejects: It's been three years since I posted last. I've struggled with Long COVID all these years and am finally feeling much better. Symptoms have lessened greatly, though I still have to watch out for overdoing my activities and I still haven't gotten my running shoes or my yoga blocks back out.  So, that's six years of this in case anyone is counting.  What have I been doing mostly?  Working from bed on the work that pays the bills, which is obvi the most important.  I've also published a follow-up to my first New York Times Modern Love article with a second New York Times Business article (Modern Love supported).  (since these are behind a paywall, you can also find them as pdfs at mbcaschetta.com). 

In other news, in about 2018-2019, I started working like a maniac on a graphic novel. I remembered that I could draw, sort of, and that a high school teacher had discouraged me from doing it by saying that I thought I was a good artist when I really wasn't.  That kind of stopped me up for about 40 years.  Anyway, it all came rushing back: the joy of it, the obsession of it, the way I wasn't very good at it, but didn't really care.

Now, I have a manuscript for Secret Agent Man to send out.  And...he is getting read to do just that. Above is the cover options:  The first one and the second inside one.  Please share your thoughts if you'd like to.  Do people still blog?  Hey: I have 3 Million views....that's a lot. 

Vote on the cover, please.  A or B?