When worlds collide
Well, crap. I mentioned at the top of the year that I had finished the first draft of my first novel. Cut to yesterday, when I started reading a graphic novel I...
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Tale of a tiny bird
We went to a friend’s pool party this past Saturday. One of our friends there had found a tiny baby bird–way more skin than fluffy down, eyes still ...
How much is enough?
As of this weekend, I’ve broken 200 pages on my project of humourous stories and observations. That is, to be clear, 200 pages as they’d appear in a...
Tech hates me
Rather than coming up with another catchy title, I figure I’ll just reuse this one as needed. Lord knows I’ve got plenty to write about to keep the ...
First draft of first novel: Fait accompli
I just finished it. I was hoping to have it wrapped before New Year’s Eve–new year, new project-kinda thing–but what with the usual Christmas ...
The new phone I went with was…
… a Pixel 5. Not the current flagship Google Android unit, but one generation removed from it. Here’s how the decision happened, in brief:– It...
On the doorstep of being 50, he writes a new resume. Or does he?
I’m applying for a job. Since my daughter was in pre-school, I’ve been working at a temp services agency while being a stay-at-home dad. Essentially...
Whole home renos: Not for the fainthearted or busy
You know what the world doesn’t need more of?Kinds of faucets. There are, I can say without risk of hyperbole, about nine and a half quintillion kinds of ...
NFTs? Hard pass, thanks.
For those of you who don’t spend hours of your day staring at a screen, ostensibly trying to write but too often procrastinating and instead surfing the w...