Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I’m going to take the next week or so to reorganize this site. Things are a little more settled on the home front, so I think I’ll have the time — and the desire — to get things together here. As I mentioned before, I am going to document what I do, and how I [...]

The site will likely be going dark again for a couple of days. The server bill is due… past due, in fact, and I won’t be paying it until Monday. I’ve not been writing here over the past few days anyway, though of course I intend to start again. My life is a bit more [...]

I would, I think, need a little fortifying before treading across this one. via

And editing, revising, cutting — doing what is necessary to make your writing compelling, interesting and engaging. Only, the book is so boring that I am not certain I’ll make it past the first chapter. Perhaps I should treat it as a cautionary tale, if nothing else.    

I have a lot to do. I have limited time (and concentration) to do it, so it seems that getting organized is the first thing on my list. Now I have to say, just between you and me, that I am not a naturally organized person. At all. But as I mentioned in my last [...]

Well, probably a little less than that, now. Say 40 minutes. I have until 5:30 AM, anyway, before I am obligated to do anything. So this hour is mine. I have, also, a blank page. Or two. Or a hundred. It doesn’t really matter how many I have, because the pages insist that their pristine [...]

Google shows you something different from it shows me, even if we search for the same thing. Facebook filters out what it thinks I may not want to see. And, apparently, these two companies are only the beginning of information gate keeping and siloing online. In my own push-back against self-created barricades, I stumbled across [...]

I’m done with the book I mention below and I just have to say — it’s pretty amazing how the casual racism of those days permeated just about everything. I often read the older ebooks (they are free!) and it’s almost like a formula: have a good plot, interesting characters, well-written story, but don’t forget [...]

I am in the middle of reading a fun book. It’s not very good, actually, but it is fun. I was more than halfway through it before something struck me about it. The characters were texting and using a telecam. Which, in the normal way of things, wouldn’t be all that odd — except this [...]

Sohaib Athar, @ReallyVirtual on Twitter, apparently started the night with about 1000 followers. Then he unwittingly tweeted, in real time, a few odd incidents happening in his Abbotabad neighborhood — which just happened to be the attack and killing of Osama. Once word got around, people started following him (not sure why since by the [...]