Five-Thing Thursday: June 22nd

Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Sometimes a short work week isn’t actually a short work week – it’s just the same amount of work crammed into less days. Thing #2: The Latest Episode of the If This Goes on (Don’t Panic) Podcast is …

The You Filter

Let’s say I give you a line or two – just the seed of a story – and I ask three of you to come up with something. Hell, let’s not just suppose it, here’s something to work with: “Yes, Time-Travel isn’t something you’d normally find on an expense report, but hear me out.” You’re …

Five-Thing Thursday: June 15th

Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: This has been a long week – or at least it’s felt like it. Thing #2: Protect your energy. Get proper sleep. It really makes a difference. Thing #3: You can manage balance between all aspects of your self, …

Do the Thing

For those of you who may not know me, I love me a good list. I write them almost daily (I tend to take the weekends off). One day, recently, the thought came to me to ask myself the following question: “What is one thing that you can do today to bring you closer to …

Five-Thing Thursday: June 8th

Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Oh yeah, it’s allergy season… Thing #2: There are things that are important to you. Make time to do as many of them as you can. Every Day. Thing #3: Look up. Breathe deep. Thing #4: What’s playing on …

Post Convention Recovery

This time last week, I was at Balticon and it would have been the penultimate day of the con, and my busiest of the weekend. I may have been a bit ambitious about my schedule. Or, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe it was that I thought that I could just jump back into …

Five-Thing Thursday: June 1st

Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: I just got back from my first in-person convention in a number of years. My Peopling muscles have weakened a bit in the intervening time. Thing #2: Never discount the importance of community. Thing #3: Have you ever been …