Writer, Dabbler In Things
Reay I’d like you to cast your mind all the way back to… er… a month ago — was it only that recent? — when Trump started his second term as president and evidently decided that a wrecking ball made a handy tool to get some things changed. I won’t bother with a list of those … Read more
I’ve changed email service providers. It’s for reasons I won’t bother getting into here, and I didn’t do it lightly, but it was something I felt I had to do. I had expected that change to take some effort, but suffice to say, working to fully make the swap to the new service has been… … Read more
Wow. Well… shows what I can do when I set my mind on something and actually stick to it. At the end of my Top 10 books of last year post, I mentioned that I was setting a goal of reading (/listening to) 50 books in 2025. Gotta say, I’m off to a better start … Read more
This wasn’t a good week for fans of Neil Gaiman or Protonmail. First and way more importantly, Neil Gaiman, for decades my favourite writer, was outed as a serial woman abuser. Last I read, eight women in total have come forward with varying stories over years of abuse by him. I’ve long believed the victim … Read more
A slow start, followed by some technical glitches with this website that disrupted by usual monthly posts of what I read — and just what did I read in February, March and April of this year? We’ll never know, because what I did remember to record either wasn’t posted here or disappeared if it was. … Read more
I recently saw a social media post about someone having just completed their goal of reading 40 books this year. It got me to thinking… hey, maybe I could do that. I don’t mean actually read-read them — at my slow pace? No chance — but get through 40 readable books plus audiobooks in a … Read more
Whoo, boy, what a difference it’s been with these audiobooks. Both for good and… well… less good. Here’s what I got through this month. ReadThe Rhythm of Time – Questlove, S.A. CosbyFour Minutes – Brian Andrews, Jeffrey WilsonWe’re All In This Together… So Make Some Room – Tom PapaFunny You Should Say That – Gerry … Read more
Another year done already? Craziness! As per usual, I’ve been taking in all the music I can reasonably get and adding songs to this year’s playlist (now sitting at exactly 100 songs from this year) as well as my ever-growing, various playlists for myriad purposes.Want to chill and read? Got a playlist for that.On my … Read more
Well, that’s better… This month I decided to try going with the If You Can’t Beat’em, Join’em approach to reading. Rather than struggling to find/invent time to sit and read, I instead took advantage of using some of my busy time to listen to books instead. I just put up a blog post talking about … Read more
While I’ve written previously about bumps in the road to enjoying audiobooks and my take on that score hasn’t changed, I have to say, when they work for me, they really work. Anyone who’s a regular reader of this site will have been lulled half to sleep lately by my monthly What I Read This … Read more