Worth the Cost

It’s called Activation Energy. This is the energy it costs to start a reaction. Looking at it from a wider perspective, it’s the energy you spend to get anything going. Unsurprisingly, this cost isn’t static. One day, an activity might take a small amount of energy to get going. Another day, it might take much …

Stepping Back to See Forward

At the beginning of the year, I made a change to the daily “To-Do” list. I started dividing it into two sections which I called: “Important and Urgent” and “Important but not Urgent.” This change has had some benefits, which I’d hoped for. It keeps me on track better than simply brain dumping onto the …

A Taste of Sun

Sidebar: This is not a post about Kate Elliott’s wonderful Sun Chronicles series, though you should definitely put it in your eyes or ears – you won’t be disappointed. Yesterday was the first day in just over two weeks or so that I actually saw the Sun. Here in my neck of the woods, we’d …

Five-Thing Thursday: January 25th.

Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1:  Both Grease Monkeys and Crimson Whisper finished 2nd in the Critters Online Writer’s Workshop Reader’s Poll. Thank you so much for voting! Thing #2: Huge thanks to the ConFusion Staff and Volunteers and to the Sheraton …

Pre-Game Jitters

The title of today’s post is a little bit of a misnomer, as it’s going live on Sunday which would, in fact, be the last day of ConFusion 2024 and I’m drafting this post on Friday afternoon, some few hour before any actual programming begins. I’m doing this for two reasons: The First, is because …