Easing Back into Things

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for me, here at the Forge. You may hove noticed that I’ve missed a post here and there. Thanks for sticking with me. It all started one morning with that nightmare scenario where you hit the power button on your trusty laptop…and nothing happens. It’s an exquisite kind …

Five-Thing Thursday: July 22nd.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: The newest release from Helloween (Titled: Helloween) is pretty good. This is my first album from them and I’m going to look back into the discography and see what’s there. Thing #2:  Never stop …

Five-Thing Thursday: July 8th.

Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Yesterday was my first day back in the office since March of 2020. I’m composing this on Tuesday afternoon, because this return to “Normal” is a massive disruption. I hope that’s as far reaching …

Independence Day

As Luck would have it, today’s post falls on what (in the US) is a national holiday. And here I am, standing on the edge of a long and slippery slope. I’m not going to get into any of the work we still need to do, not only as a country, but as a society, …