For Day Ten, we should have something enjoyable. Songs I listen to when I’m happy, sad, bored, hyped, and mad. This was more appropriate twenty-five or thirty years ago. I don’t listen to music that often these days. Listening to music has always been a very private experience for me. … Continue reading →
It’s taken me a little over a week into the new year to get started, but I’m back to working on Polar Bear on the Loose, and, by extension, “How to Revise Your Novel.” I was dragging my feet at getting started. The bag with the project was sitting beside … Continue reading →
The ninth day asks me to discuss something I’m proud of in the past few days. I’m proud of how our Createslate group has come together over the past year in supporting not only our writing, but more than that, our daily living (well, more weekly, because that’s what our … Continue reading →
Eight days into the challenge, I’m supposed to post my short-term goals for this month and why. This is easy. Health and fitness: Do some basic fitness ball stretching each morning, and head to the shop every other day and do 15 minutes of balance work on the Wii, 30 … Continue reading →
For the seventh day of 30 Days of Me challenge, I’m supposed to show a picture of who or what has had the biggest impact on me. What is it with all these pictures? Obviously, my parents had a huge impact on me — especially for the first eighteen years … Continue reading →
I’m choosing a superhero who is not well-known. She doesn’t have a comic book or television series named after her. But, unlike those superheroes, she’s real. My mom, Nancy (shown here, in 2010, with my dad). Here are a couple shots of us on our trip to Italy in … Continue reading →
Today’s choices are varied. Do I want to call attention to my childhood in my beloved Iowa? Does Ohio, where I attended and completed high school and my first year of college warrant attention? What about that awful ten months I lived in Western Massachusetts? Does it count? I learned … Continue reading →
For today, Day 4 of the Thirty Days of Me Challenge, I’m supposed to talk about a habit I wish I didn’t have. If only there weren’t so many to choose from. I could go for the low hanging fruit and wish I didn’t eat so many chips or so … Continue reading →
I just don’t have a lot of pictures of me and my friends. First, I don’t do pictures of people. I don’t have many pictures of me with anyone. I certainly don’t have many recent pictures. But, the prompt doesn’t call for a recent picture. So, we’re looking at a … Continue reading →
I just finished mowing the January weeds in the back yard and pulled the charger out for the mower. Except, the charger case was split open rather spectacularly. Which means some component in the transformer failed — typically that would be a capacitor. No matter. The short answer is I … Continue reading →