
Building things that matter: publishing, woodworking, practical business, and lessons from everyday life.
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By the 1980s, after years in construction, government work, writing, and publishing, I was into woodworking full time and learning every day.
In 1989, I decided to write a book sharing what was still my limited experience in the woodworkin...
Yesterday I published a Substack post about our new BillandBarbOver80 website.
I was sailing right along, writing about Barbara’s most recent book, when I listed it as Silent Crossing, published in 2024.
Barbara did write Silent Crossing,...
Barbara is 84 and I’m 87, and neither of us seems particularly interested in sitting around waiting to see what happens next.
Barbara finished A Normal Day this year and is now well into another book.
It may be finished this year.
Or not...
I was fortunate to know Warren Haskin well.
Warren had two passions that I remember especially.
One was baseball.
The other was helping people realize their highest potential.
When Warren wrote the Metal Spikes baseball series, he found...
Recently, I began using AI to create some of the illustrations for my Substack posts.
That process surprised me because it works much like everything else I do with Atticus.
Atticus is my name for ChatGPT.
I don’t simply ask for an image...
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Bill Benitez is an independent publisher and writer specializing in practical nonfiction and thoughtfully produced short books.
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