The 2020 Sticker Experiment

This year, I set off to try something new. Well, something new for me anyway. Here’s a picture to show the results of the first month: To clear things up, every day that I get some kind of writing – and by that, I am not including Blogging, Tweeting, etc. – done, that earns me …

Sunday’s ConFusion Schedule:

Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Sunday: Laser Guns and Gravity Canons: War in Deep Space Sunday 1:00PM PetoskeyWe’ve come a long way from Flash Gordon’s pew-pew laser effects. From Ninefox Gambit’s eldritch special attacks to The Expanse’s inventive use of real-world physics, what does warfare look like in modern …

Saturday’s ConFusion Schedule

Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Saturday: Effective Training Sequences in Prose Fiction: Saturday 1:00PM InterlochenIn movies such as How To Train Your Dragon, the sequence in which our dashing hero bumbles through training and eventually triumphs usually has a stirring score and a lot of quick transitions to back …

Friday’s ConFusion Schedule!

Hey Everyone! This Weekend, I’m at ConFusion! Here’s my Schedule for Friday: Managing and Overcoming Professional Burnout: Friday 1:00PM CharlevoixThe Mayo Clinic defines burnout as “a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.” It can affect people of all professions, but it presents …

Quieting the Storm Within

It’s been raining all day. And not just the cold misty stuff that’s common this time of year either. Outside it’s raining like it means it. So I’ve been stuck in the house and doing not much of anything this past weekend. And it’s bothering me. Maybe, like me, you’ve gotten so used to going, …

2020: A Look Forward

Welcome, Everyone, to the first Blog Post of the New Year! If you’ve followed me here from 2019, thanks for sticking with me, and, if you’re new to the Blog, Welcome aboard! This year while, empirically, no different than any other, feels particularly significant. For starters, 2020 is an election year. I don’t normally get …