Eric Vance Walton (@ericvancewalton)
Write. Save. Travel. Repeat.
Making Peace With My Inner-Spanky
I logged into my SquareSpace account a few days ago with the intention of adding Walking With the Muse to my Books page and realized something—the old website is in desperate need of tidying up. Th...
Take A Walk With the Muse
Launch day is finally here! https://youtube.com/shorts/B-9vRP8pPJ8?feature=share Walking with the Muse is out now—a collection of short stories more than thirty years in the making. Thank you for f...
Book Launch Eve!
We’re quickly approaching book-launch eve and those old-familiar butterflies are setting in. It’s been a pretty intense past few months of gathering stories together, working on the cover design co...
The Tsunami of Autonomy Begins Tomorrow
The US is a mere 24 hours away from experiencing the beginning of what will be a major shift in transportation. However, you won’t hear much about it in the mainstream media—that is, unless it fail...
Proper Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance (Hopefully)
The title really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? 😂 Six more days until the book launch! I’m several days deep into the marketing blitz on social media to help build anticipation. For me, marketi...
Coming September 4: A New Chapter
I’m thrilled to share with you all that the release of my new book Walking With the Muse: A Collection of Short Stories is scheduled for September 4! After months of curating the stories, making re...
Cautiously Optimistic
The crypto markets have seen some pretty impressive gains in the last few days (by today's standards anyway) and I see so many of the crypto-influencers on social media being swept away in the euph...
Thanks for the Memories
I’ve been thinking a whole lot lately about how fast time passes. Except for a few very minor aches and pains I feel the same as I did when I was in my twenties—which I’m very grateful for. My spir...
Basilicas, Glitches, and Dive Bars
The older I get the more I seem to be fascinated by basilicas and cathedrals. I think it's just a profound sense of respect and awe of the people, sometimes many hundreds of years ago, who built th...
DIY-Retirement
Since moving into our home in October of 2024 we’ve had to replace nearly every major mechanical thing in the house. The first thing to go was the furnace. Then the hot-water heater failed. That fi...
People Really Do Choose a Book by Its Cover
The last few days have been crunch-time for me—it’s been hectic but highly productive. Interior proofing for the new book, done. Final approval on the book cover, complete. Next comes the uploading...
Morning People
I’ve come to realize there are two kinds of people in this world. There are morning people and everyone else. For most of my adult life I worked jobs with early shifts, so my average wake-up time w...
In Memory of Jackie: Lessons from a Nest High Above Big Bear Valley
My wife and I have been watching the Friends of Big Bear Valley (FOBBV) YouTube channel religiously for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE In those years we’ve had a front-row seat ...
embarrassing
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Every Little Thing's Gonna Be Alright
Some of you might be familiar with the term Third-Places. This term was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg and refers to informal public gathering spots outside the home (“first place”) and work (...