“Leaving Facebook”
By Di Brown
/ January 16, 2025
Looking to leave Facebook? here's what to know.
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Life Lessons: Buying a Home in Portugal
By Di Brown
/ December 14, 2024
We bought an apartment! It was just like buying our house in the states. Except when it wasn't...
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“Getting Out of the US”
By Di Brown
/ November 9, 2024
What to know about leaving the country
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Life Lessons: Hospital Corners
By Di Brown
/ September 20, 2024
No more hospital corners - life lessons and new perspectives learned from trying to make my new bed.
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Life Lessons: Waste and Recycling
By Di Brown
/ August 23, 2024
Household waste disposal and recycling in Portugal is very different than in the US - and, we think, makes much more sense.
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Life Lessons: Taking Our Medicine
By Di Brown
/ August 12, 2024
We were as prepared as we could be - but who knew that getting one of Bernie's prescriptions filled would turn into a multi-week adventure?
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Adventure: Feira Sant’iago
By Di Brown
/ July 30, 2024
We visit our local fair, which is as much like a fair in the US as a 400-year old fair can be!
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Moving to Portugal: Visas and Permits
By Di Brown
/ July 28, 2024
Moving to Portugal: Applying for our visas and residency permits.
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Life Lessons: The Mall
By Di Brown
/ July 20, 2024
Our local mall seems, at first glance, the same as any other mall we'd ever been in. But then, we got a chance to see...
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Moving To A New Country: Choosing Portugal
By Di Brown
/ July 19, 2024
Some people “fall in love” with a country and decide to move there. For us, the choice was a little more pragmatic.
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Check Out My Work
Alchemy
By Di Brown
/ July 19, 2021
TL:DR Press' 2021 1KWH Winners anthology - including works from several writers I know and love - and my own entry, "Secrets of the...
Arcane
By Di Brown
/ April 19, 2021
Four magical Creatures. Four prompts. Four stories, written over four months. Four winners. I'm excited to have my four-story series, Protector of the Path, included in Iron Faerie Publishing's Arcane Anthology, along with tales of Dragons, by Vonnie Winslow Crist; Necromancy, by David Green, and the elusive Tiktik, by Lyndsey...
Endless Pictures
By Di Brown
/ June 25, 2020
Endless Pictures is a collection of the 20 highest-rated flash fiction pieces from TL;DR Press first flash fiction competition. In 1k words or less, authors bring you to new worlds, stretch the boundaries, and warm our hearts. Each unique entry was given two prompts, and each one show just how much you can do with 1 thousand words. All proceeds go to First Story. I'm excited to be included among the Top 20 winners of TLDR Press' 2020 "1,000 Word Herd" contest. Given the prompts "A factory worker" and "A hidden key", I was challenged to write a story of no more than 1,000 words within a week, and encouraged to "get creative" with the prompts.. I'm honored to be in such impressive company, including: Rob McIvorLaura A. PikeKat VeldtAlex WoodroeRegan PuckettKatie ConradCaroline Barnard-Smith Myna ChangCharlie RogersJim HorlockMadeleine PelletierLauren BarkerM.M. Schreier Janna MillerHannah HulbertAlexandra OttoStefan SokoloskiChrissie RohrmanEmily...
Spinward Traveller
By Di Brown
/ January 2, 2015
If they keep flying, stay out of the war, and avoid other pirates, they just might do the impossible... turn a...
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (The Novel)
By Di Brown
/ August 6, 2014
All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they're more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on...
Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA
By Di Brown
/ December 18, 2013
Sam Pettus' articles for the web site Eidolon's Inn grew into enough material for a book. Sam put it all together into a book. David Munoz and team revamped and edited to smooth out the conversion from web site to single volume in this Enhanced edition of Sam's original...
Justice Denied: The Movie
By Di Brown
/ January 1, 2013
Did you know that more than half of the 20,000+ rape victims in our military each year are male? These men are all too painfully aware of that...
Welcome To My Nightmare
By Di Brown
/ December 9, 2012
Susan Ganger's memoir of betrayal and retaliation is, unfortunately, not in any way unique - it is repeated all too often. Welcome To My Nightmare is her effort to bring the subject into the...
The Complete Amateur’s Guide to Self-Publishing in the Digital Age
By Di Brown
/ December 8, 2012
The information in this book is outdated, and it has been pulled from circulation. But it will remain here on my web site because it was the first eBook I ever wrote, formatted, and published myself....