There’s a time in a parent’s life–I’m making a sweeping assumption here based on my own experience, but I’d bet money it’s accurate–that in raising their child(ren), they encounter not only toys that are particularly cool (with thoughts of, Man, I wish they had stuff this cool when I was a kid), but also revisit…
Social Medialess October isn’t a thing. But perhaps it should be. I finally quit Facebook a handful of months back after long intending to ditch it for good. It was more problems with the company’s unethical practices than anything. (What those specific items are aren’t particularly important; suffice to say, if you do even a…
I’m not a big believer in capital-s Signs. By which I’m not speaking of Shyamalan’s okay 2002 offering, but rather signs from, if you will, the… well… universe. We all know those people. The ones who feel as though one thing or another was clearly trying to tell them something. “The baby threw up on…
As I mentioned in my last post, the first draft of my first novel is going well. Meaning, as far as progression of the word count. As for the quality?That’s a whole other thing. I rewrote the opening three times, trying three different approaches with it, and it still feels weak. The inciting incident–a young…
I hit a couple of notable benchmarks today. This isn’t to be confused with hitting the magic number I mentioned recently. That’s a whole other thing. And not a good one.Don’t confuse personal bests and personal worsts, people. It can’t end well. No, this time the first benchmark, albeit the less significant of the two…
With a wife who’s a teacher and a grade-school kid, it was a little crazy in the ol’ Jespersen household this month, so I didn’t get as much read as I would’ve hoped. Then again, there’s a solid argument to be made that I never do. Here’s the low-down on how September went: ReadOpen Borders:…
As I’d written about back in earlier days of isolation, I’m trying out making some stop motion videos. It’s been a while since I took a crack at another one, in part because I wasn’t able to come up with more than a handful of ideas lo these many months, and in part because I…
My nine-year-old daughter has had some interest in coding for the last couple of years. Now bear in mind, at that age, “coding” is pretty much using a program that lets the user drag and drop pre-set commands into a stacked order for, say, a basic (real or virtual) robot to execute:Forward 1 spaceForward 1…
(I am learning Danish.) In the spirit of striving to do more productive things with my time, I’ve decided it’s long overdue that I try to start learning Danish. I’m using the Duolingo system, in part because it was the system recommended to me by my daughter’s past French immersion teacher to brush up on…