Master Works

About the creator of works in the collection and the entity under which they are consolidated.

• • MasterChief: About the creator of MasterWorks and all its collected works.

  • MasterWorks: About MasterWorks itself.

When we stop learning, death is near

The website that started all. It has been online continuously for over 25 years.

TKDTutor (Taekwondo Tutor): Comprehensive information about martial arts generally and taekwondo specifically. A compendium of over 900 articles.

A collection of items about jigsaw puzzles and tracking their completions.

• • It's Puzzling: A website that has everything you need to know about jigsaw puzzling, all in one location.

  • PuzzleTracker (Coming Soon): The ultimate tool for avid puzzlers to track their puzzling journey.

A collection of websites about various subjects.

• • CCRC Guide: Everything you need to know about Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC), also known as Life Plan Communities.

  • Salemtowne Trails: All about Salemtowne Life Plan Community walking trails.

  • Boomer Swimmin' Holes: Information about some popular swimming holes, lakes, and pools around Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina, during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s when the early baby boomers (1946-1954) were children, teens, and young adults.

  • What we’ve got here is…: Variations on a famous line from a classic movie.

  • Feeling Gamey?: Offers free online rules and both online and printable scoresheets for some popular card games that are easy to read, understand, and use. These online tools help keep the games moving and help scorekeepers stay in the game, not buried in numbers

  • Blogger Page Manager: It helps you to build and manage a website of any size using Google Blogger, Sheets, and Docs. It is especially beneficial for sites that may contain HUNDREDS of pages of information, such as TKDTutor.com.

A collection of blogs with information about various subjects.

• • Far-Outlier: Observations of life from a lifelong skeptic.

  • Triad Trail Tracker: Information about bicycle trails and greenway riding in the Triad area surrounding Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

A collection of articles about various subjects.

• • Words of Wisdom: Words of wisdom from the Master Cheif.

  • Shiba-Inu: They are great dogs, if you can handle them.

  • Bicycling Tips for Seniors: Tips learned from experience.

  • Energy Vampires: People who suck the life out of a room when they enter it.

  • Wealth-Building Advice: Tips from some financial professionals.

  • Points to Ponder: Some things to think about.

  • Quotations: Inspiring words from the great and the not-so-great.

A collection of articles about some of the things and people that had a significant influence on my life.

• • Chief Oglesby: A Navy chief who inadvertently changed the direction of my life for the better.

  • Edmund Scientific: As a child, it helped quench my thirst for knowledge.

  • Pikes Peak Paget: A college professor who showed me that being different was okay.

A collection of articles about some of my experiences while serving in the United States Navy.

• • Body on the Recliner: I wish I had known this earlier.

  • Catholic Mass: My mishearing the 1MC.

  • Patch on a Tail Rotor: A prank played on the Air Boss.

  • Saga of Fred: A sucker is born every minute.

  • Saga of James: Sometimes, recruiters were desperate to meet their quotas.

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BookSheets is a Google Sheets spreadsheet template comprised of many tabs (sheets). Each tab is designed to help readers organize and track their reading journey with clarity and style. The tabs are as follows:

Navigation

• Navigator:  Allows user to quickly jump to any tab and provides links to help in using BookSheets.

Trackers

• ReadingTracker: Your complete personal book tracker. Turn your reading history into a dynamic, living archive. Track every title, format, and genre, visualize your progress, and preserve your favorite quotes and ratings.

• AuthorTracker: If you love reading an author’s works from first to last release to full bibliography, map an author’s entire bibliography, manage series in order, and flag upcoming releases so you never miss a launch.

• SeriesTracker: Track the many different series you are reading so you always know which books you have read, which to read next, and when more of the series is planned or is due for release.

• LibraryTracker: Easily manage your personal book collection. Catalog your books, track ownership, and keep your shelves organized.

• ARCTracker: Designed for Advance Copy Readers, such as book bloggers, influencers, and early reviewers. Keeps deadlines, review statuses, and ARC sources crystal clear.

• BuddyTracker: Track your reading progress with a buddy or buddies or in a reading club.

• ReleaseTracker: Track the release dates of your favorite books you  don't miss one.

• HabitsTracker:  Track you reading habits to see if you are meeting your reading goals.

• StatisticsTracker: Track numerous statistics related to your reading journey so you also know if you are on course.

Settings

• Genres: Allows users to edit the genre choices used to populate the genres selectors and to choose which genre they want to use in the genre selectors.

• Dropdowns: Allows users to edit what appears as choices for most of the dropdown selectors used throughout BookSheets.

• Options Reading: Allows users to select which sections of the ReadingTracker they want to use and to hide the sections they do not want to use.

• Options Library: Allows users to select which sections of the LibraryTracker they want to use and to hide the sections they do not want to use.