It's that time of year again, where the current year winds down and we look forward to what's coming up in 2022. I personally love the limbo that is the week between Christmas and New Years. It's a great time to catch up on some projects, both personal and...
I had meant to write this post back around Thanksgiving, but I had family in town and was incredibly busy, so here we are. Like most of us, I've spent an inordinate amount of time fixated on all the stuff that has been bad the last few years. With the Pandemic hanging...
Recently I've been reading a lot from Andrew Mayne. I started out in March reading "The Girl Beneath the Sea", got curious and read a few of his non-fiction pieces such as "How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours" and "The Cure for Writer's Block", both of which I found...
I had the main idea for this blog several weeks ago. Since then we've had the worst freeze my tropical home has seen in over 30 years. This was coupled with widespread power outages as Texas tried desperately to keep it's entire power grid from collapsing. This meant...
I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that this has been an unusual year. That’s probably an understatement, but I’m sure you all understand. It would be easy, and generic to just dog pile on 2020, but I think that would be oversimplifying it. Because yes there has been a...
I haven’t written much in the last few weeks. Honestly it’s been difficult. I was going to write an article about how enormously hard it’s been to find inspiration but that’s probably obvious. COVID has continued to hang over everyone’s head like the proverbial Sword...
Note - This originally appeared as a note on Facebook in 2014. I'm reposting it here because I never thought it got enough attention back then and this is a topic that deserves an ongoing discussion. I believe our greatness can only be judged by how we treat our most...