My unrequited love of tech rolls on
For those who aren’t familiar enough with me to know smaller details of my life, know this: I love technology and all the cool stuff it can do, but the fe...
Author: Reay
On staying informed enough
A few days ago I wrote about the personal issues I’ve dealt with of being full-to-overflowing with news and social media for years, and the peace and enjo...
Get digitally broad and have a backup plan
I just read this article as linked from today’s Briefing Day newsletter. It’s quick and really worth a read. In short, it talks about a game develop...
Looking back on a month off of social media
Today marks the last day of my month away from Twitter and Mastodon (and Tumblr, which I recently realized I was still on). What I will or won’t do with T...
In search of the new “guys”
I read an interesting article this week about the growing problem of using the term “guys” when referring to a group that isn’t strictly male ...
What I read this month
I read a couple of new books in October and got a few more finished up before starting a new one that I think has been sitting and waiting its turn for quite a ...
Photos aplenty
For anyone who hasn’t poked around my site much, please do take the time to check out my Photos page. I add only select stuff to it pretty regularly (and ...
Celebrate progress, not perfection
I heard that phrase recently in regard to a new podcast that’s out. With apologies, I don’t recall which podcast it is, but I loved the phrase becau...
This is your captain speaking: We’re at 31,000 and climbing.
Yesterday I broke the 31,000 word mark on my novel WIP. It’s not a ton, of course. It’s not even at the half-way point of the 80,000 words that conv...
Happy I’m off Facebook, and Twitter is probably next
I recently wrote about my choice to take a one-month hiatus from all social media (or rather, the scant social sites I’m on these days), and how that̵...