Writer, Dabbler In Things
Reay 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
As of this writing, I have five active email addresses. That I can recall. There are quite possibly more I’m not remembering at the moment.That’s a lot. It’s entirely too many.The thing is, I didn’t mean for that to happen, the list just kind of naturally grew as things changed and came up.Now I’m trying … Read more
It was a month of loading myself up with books — physical, ebooks and audiobooks — but ending up not getting to many of them for myriad reasons (although, okay, a lot of it was falling for a new comedy podcast). Here’s how it shook out: Read Things From the Flood – Simon Stålenhag Small … Read more
Not quite keeping up with the pace I was hoping for, but perhaps that shouldn’t be too surprising, given a wife going back to teaching and a teen going back to school, so we’re all getting used to the new norm for the next nine months. While September does offer a chance at refocusing, it … Read more