Unless you’re new to the blog, you’ll know that there are two times out of the year where I stop and deliberately take some time to look inward. Sidebar: If you’re new to the blog, Welcome! Thanks for reading! Those times are New Year’s Day and my birthday. When my birthday rolled around, I took …
Well, it certainly has been a summer so far, yeah? It has been for me, I can tell you that. There have been things happening. There have been adjustments to life, the day job, the Universe…Everything. And none of that has passed on through without leaving some kind of impression, something to mark its passing. …
I haven’t written in a week. A good part of that has to do with the state of *waves hands at the world* everything. More times than I like ot admint, I find myself mindlessly (or semi-mindlessly) doomscrolling (which is an awesome word for it) through twitter, bouncing from one garbage fire to another. It …
I can’t remember where I first heard this term, although I suspect that I originally came across it during a dimly-remembered chemistry class. Basically, as far as I remember it, the term refers to the minimum amount of energy required to kick off a reaction. If you want to start a ball rolling down a …
Here in my neck-o-the-woods, Monday (June 15th) marks the end of a bunch of stay-at-home orders and I’m hearing folks around me starting to talk about things getting back to “Normal.” This kinda scares me. Primarily, it scares me because there’s still no cure or Vaccine for the Coronavirus. We are still logging upwards of …
Well it sure has been a week, hasn’t it? I hope you’re all safe and well on your way to adjusting to the new normal. There’s been quite a bit of shake-up around the world lately and it’s had an effect on all our lives. Myself, I’m working remotely until the turn of the month …
There will come a time where you sit down to do “The Thing” and nothing comes. You may be experiencing something like that right now. Well, maybe not right, right now because you’re reading this, but you now what I mean. You’re all set to do what it is you do and…nothing doing. I’ve experienced …
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 …
For those of you that don’t know me, this time of year is one of two times during the year where I drift pretty heavily into an introspective mood – the other time is my Birthday (which is in July, so they’re nicely spaced apart). Here we are NaNoWriMo has passed, and the New Year …
I’d like to follow up a bit on one of the Things from last Thursday’s post: Don’t be afraid to ask for what you want. I don’t know about you, but for me, this is sometimes much more difficult than it sounds. It’s easy to self-reject. It’s easy to say to yourself, “They won’t want …