Be it resolved…
One of the promises that I gave to myself just following the turn of the year was to try to write more. No… Really to write anything. I love words; sometimes I forget that, but when I’m writing I love...
View ArticleHow Do You Structure Your Life?
Man's Mechanics Exposed How does life become complicated? Why does it happen? How do we fix it? These questions occur to me once and a while. I’m not always lucid enough to remember just how complex...
View Article6 Updates About My Life You May Already Know
I suck at self-promotion. I know this, but sometimes it still takes it being pointed out for me to remember to do anything about it. And, given the number of things that seem to be popping up that I...
View ArticleRIP, my beard circa 2003-2011: may you return soon
I, like most, have my fears, misgivings and sensitivities. Like most, I seek to overcome them when I can, challenge myself to face my insecurities and my beliefs and my stable yet unhelpful patterns....
View ArticleNovember traditions: NaNoWriMovember!
I’m not sure why this year has marked so many changes to me. Perhaps it is the reeling and rocking reaction to the changes that have come external to me, the changes I initiate as course corrections in...
View ArticleMovember Update: I Have Unlocked “Rocked A Vest” Achievement
It’s official: vests rock! I now look upon a collared shirt with no vest or no tie as somewhat lacking. It’s like it lacks structure and form. A collared shirt alone is a void. Like space without...
View ArticleMovember update: mighty fine stache
Once you have broken the overwrought pattern, the ends of it wave back and forth, madly trying to connect to other things. New patterns form, weak and unsupported, very tenuous and temporary. Strange...
View ArticleIf “Life is what you make it”, what are we making it into?
Contemplation of the ancient and the new, all at once.. Every once and a while, I seem to sit up straight, cast off the blanket of “normal life”, and look around with fresh eyes. During those times, I...
View ArticleSaving Money Slowly
About a year ago, just after Balticon was over, I said to myself: “That was great, but.. Next year I’ve got plan my money better!” I managed to get to Balticon, but I was severely money-crunched. I’m...
View ArticleCAFFEEN! Playlist for 2015-04-11: “Load From Backup Y/N?”
What is reincarnation, but a rebooting? What is life, but an execution of a procedure? What is death, but the termination of the cycle? Please donate. From Destroy All Dreamers‘s album A Coeur Leger...
View ArticleCAFFEEN! playlist for 2015-04-25: “A Shade, Less Dark”
What if you awoke to find yourself missing? Would you invent a new you from the whole cloth of your surroundings, or would you take any advice — from anyone — to find that self you were? And what...
View ArticleDDOP 2015 #4: The Missing Manuals of Life
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Do you ever get that feeling that there was something you should probably just “know” by now? Or that there was a lesson in life that you slept in through?
View ArticleDDOP 2015 #21: Cooking, or: The Perils of Full Schedules
Funny, I don’t think I talk nearly enough about cooking in this episode..
View ArticleDDOP 2016 #8: Life, The Universe (but not Everything)
In which I stare at the sky again, and all I see are memories..
View ArticleDDOP 2016 #22: Ramble on The Dying of the Light
In which I find myself to tired to contemplate things, and end up on the melancholy side of the day.
View ArticleDDOP 2016 #29: Ramble On The Meaning Of Life
In which I keep asking the question, but no one answers it, except with other questions. Music today is Goldmine by Grand Theft Bus.
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