J and I got married in June 18 years ago. With it being shortly before the end of her teaching school that year, we had to wait for a bit to get to our honeymoon, which we had on Maui. It’s a pretty spectacular island, and we made the most of our week-ish there by…
We got Radar last April, and he’s been settling in nicely. Local friends and neighbours who have dogs have been commenting lately on how much better he’s doing on walks and his behaviour as a whole — still far from perfect, mind you — which has been heartening. Validation from your peers evidently still feels…
My dearest Josephine, I write to you as we briefly break amid the surviving men of our corps pushing on toward a more advantageous location. Where that is, I of course cannot reveal, lest this letter fall into enemy hands rather than the tender care of yours. It has been a particularly gruesome stretch since…
Due to an unexpected, and deepening, dive into some very time-consuming but long-overdue manual labour this month, I got precious little reading completed. I am on the cusp of finishing a couple of other books I couldn’t quite squeak in under the wire. But with the 1st of the month arriving in a bit over…
I don’t have many self-imposed rules for Blaugust, but to help it from being a total freeform, chaotic mess that I wind up getting lost in and frustrated by, I figured a few proverbial lights along the path would help keep me moving forward. In no particular order: And I think that’s about it. I’ve…
I’ve just heard about a phenomenon that’s been happening for at least a dozen years, called Blaugust. In short, it’s an annual celebration of blogs, of website owners posting their opinions, takes, reviews, etc., of anything and everything of interest to them. Like the section of this very website you’re reading at this moment, where…
Those of you who read my posts through to the end (and why wouldn’t you? It’s all gold, I tell you. Gold.) will recall that back in December I jotted a note at the end of this post that I was going to try a challenge to myself to read 50 books in 2025. Well,…
A definition of planned obsolescence, per a summary from Wikipedia:“In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of…
Why do you make it so hard for people to find the one thing they’re looking for? I’m on ZipRecruiter as I write this — perhaps the best known job site these days — looking for jobs under the category “writer”. Now yes, many jobs with that key word have come up in the results,…
I read on Mastodon a couple of days back that someone I follow has deleted her longtime files of collected notes and reminders, and has experienced a huge weight off her shoulders as a result. And I immediately knew that I could never do that. Her points are quite sound: The ever-growing list of books…