Happy Sunday (Or whichever day it is that you happen to be reading this) Everyone! Here we are, at the penultimate day of January, 2022. How are you doing? Are you crushing those goals you set for 2022 yet? Been absolutely flawless in all those sweeping changes you declared you’d make, (way) back on the …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Sit yourself in the middle of music that you don’t know. Focus on something mindless and, eventually, you’ll find your foot tapping to the beat. Thing #2: It is heartening to discover that despite …
I woke up on Friday morning to the news that Marvin Lee Aday had passed away. If you don’t recognize the name – and I confess that I didn’t know the man’s name at the time – then you might recognize his stage name: Meat Loaf. There was a time, waaaay back when, this guy …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but there’s no particular order to these Things. Thing #2: My favorite color may be changing. Thing #3: Whatever it is, starting it is the hardest …
Lukewarm is no good. If there’s something out there that you’re really into, let that flag fly. Don’t rein yourself in. Not only are you stifling yourself, you may be missing out on the chance to meet other people who are into the same thing. Talk about it. Write about it. Share it with the …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: The Welsh Rugby Union has extended professional contracts to 12 players. THis may seem like a small step (Considering that 15 players make up a team, and that’s not counting impact players on the …
Happy Sunday (Or whichever day you happen to be reading this) everyone. Here we are kicking off the second week of 2022. I fully confess that it’s been a slow start. Maybe it’s been that way for you as well. Maybe you haven’t gotten right on those projects that you said you’d get to at …
Welcome, everyone to the First Installment of Five Thing Thursday for 2021! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: I don’t mind the cold. I don’t like Being cold. There’s a difference. Thing #2: Change comes gradually. Even if you only set out to be 1% better at something, at …
2021 was a bit of a year, wasn’t it? For me, it was a rebuilding year. Part of that rebuilding was tearing down – not quite literally. There were some health issues which put me off my feet for a few months and had me reacting to life up until, say the final quarter of …
The first draft of this post was massive. Now if you’ve ever seen the early drafts of my work – “Short” stories included – this shouldn’t come as a surprise, but I’d raised the bar even for me. I found myself talking about *Everything* including deeply personal stuff, better set down in a personal journal- …