My family and I finally cleaned out my mother’s storage locker this past summer. She’s still living but in a long-term care facility for the foreseeable future, so hasn’t had, and won’t have need or for pretty much any of the stored material. And among the many (many, many) old school items saved there (much…
Whoa. I’ve just had perhaps the most Can’t See The Forest For The Trees moment of my life, if it proves to be true. I’m back to baby-stepping my way through Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down The Bones — Freeing The Writer Within, which is a collection of thought-chapters about the process of writing. This…
Back in February, Steven Lawson, a gent I follow on Mastodon, had a brainstorm to start up a Monochrome March movement. The idea, as he put it, was for anyone interested in participating to post monochrome photos that were newly taken. I immediately knew I was going to join in. I told him that I…
A bit tight on time due to expected busyness and the family being home for March Break — as I’ve mentioned previously, it’s ironically when my wife and teen are home that I get the least progress made there on work and preferred passtimes — but I still managed to start a couple of new…
February became an unexpectedly busy month, but I managed to get one important book under my belt: ReadThe Let Them Theory – Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins ReadingWrite Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg The Let Them Theory caught my eye at a book store not long ago, and the blurb…
Bit of a slow month, reading-wise, largely due to trying to catch up on some podcasts, thanks to the focus being a big push at the end of 2025 to ignore other passtimes and finish those 50 books. Here’s what this month looked like: ReadBossypants – Tiny Fey Started and stoppedWhy Nobody Understands Quantum Physics…
Happy belated New Year to those who celebrate! 2025 proved to be a wonky one for me technologically-speaking. Here’s what I wound up dealing with as far as its challenges and changes went: New email serviceI started 2025 by switching to a new email service when I clashed hard with comments of the CEO of…
I came across fewer new songs this year than I often do, but I’ll squarely attribute that to trying to get through 50 books this year, and that often taking the form of audio books occupying my listening time. As always, these aren’t necessarily songs released this year, but just songs I heard for the…
Ah yes, the unexpected high of actually getting through (over!) 50 books this year! Quite an unexpected range of material to choose from for this list. In no particular order other than approximate chronological order they were read in, here are my top ten books I read this year: Clockwork Boys: Clocktaur War Book One…
Well, well, well… I wonder what life is like for people who didn’t read fifty books this year. Hmm?What’s that?Oh yeah, I’ve done that. That, and more.Before December even started, no less. Mind you, slam-dunking a stack in November went a long way toward wrapping up my self-imposed challenge — see the bottom of this…