I’ve said it before here, but there are times where I’m not just talking to you, Reader. Sometimes I use this platform for myself. This past fortnight has been a mess. Developments at the day job have kept me in complete Emergency/Damage control mode 100% of the time and things on the home front have …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: This past weekend, Sara Cox became the first female referee to oversee a European Premiereship Rugby Match. Well done! And I hope there’s more to come. Thing #2: Yesterday I hosted my friends JeanRabe …
Hey there, Everyone! This week, I’ve got the great pleasure to host my friends, Jean Rabe and Donald J Bingle! If you’ve been following them on Twitter (This is a good idea. You can find them @donaldjbingle and @jeanerabe then you know that they’ve got a new book out, called: The Love-Haight Case Files, Book 2: …
I am 51 years old. Over the course of two days, I have stacked nearly 300 bales of hay. By hand. For those of you not familiar, these are square bales – close to 3 or 3.5 feet long maybe a foot and a half wide (Yes, I know that’s not a square, but that’s …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Check out Rina Sawayama’s cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” You can find it here. It’s Awesome! Thing #2: It’s raining outside my window as I’m typing this and it’s the most soothing sound. Thing …
Ideas can come form anywhere. The idea for this post came from a rugby podcast I was listening to, earlier in the week. Which Rugby Podcast, you ask? It was The Good, the Bad, and the Rugby podcast. You can find it here. And it went like this: One of the guests said, “When you …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Back yourself. Even if it’s something you’ve never done before. Especially if it’s something you’ve never done before. Thing #2: Habits (both good and bad) didn’t get to be habits overnight. Thing #3: Premiership …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: If you end your book on a cliff-hanger, you’d better be good enough to make me pick up the next one. Otherwise, I’ll never forgive you. Thing #2: The first of the leaves are …
I am an Autumn person. No, I’m not one of Ray Bradbury’s Autumn People from “Something Wicked This Way Comes”=…” Though how good was Jonathon Pryce as Mr. Dark? Go ahead, watch it. I found it both frightening and challenging, I found it frightening, because it would be *so* easy to fall into the rut …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: I find it vaguely surprising that it is, somehow, September already. Thing #2: New band to give a listen to: Seven Kingdoms. As one might think, there’s a bit of A Song of Ice …