I want to talk about a personal goal I had this year, the year I had, and those of you who were a part of the journey even if you didn’t quite realize it. You’ll have to bear with me — I’m sober as a judge but I tend to ramble. I’ve said a few …
We’ve now reached the interesting crossroads of my year: September, especially the tail end of September, is the worst part of the year almost without fail. Work gets beyond stressful, the school year has started and routines are changing, it just stinks. But then there’s hope: it might not be a hundred degrees in the …
We’re only two days in and I’m already off to a slow start. Hopefully a four day weekend can help me kick it off a bit better next week.
And helpful gifts This is a short but super helpful idea: Give yourself helpful and thoughtful gifts. Now, these can be just about anything, but some of the things I’m really appreciating the value of are: – times I’ve anticipated that something might go wrong, and left myself an out. This can be anything from …
I’m about at the point of buying a dashcam for both my and the wife’s cars. Over the years we’ve both logged a lot of hours behind the wheel and it just seems to me that the ability to drive has seriously diminished lately. This isn’t necessarily a generational thing, though young people do stick …
I’ve been getting stuff from Amazon for over a decade now, and I’ve only had like three problems in that time: once, something was just wrong; another time, a DVD wasn’t shipped well and had been destroyed despite the box being fine; and then this time. I ordered three items, and I guess they were …
My April Goal is to do better than I did in February, when I hit 50+ thousand words.
Despite not being Catholic, each year for the last several I have given something up for Lent. Sometimes more than one something lately. This year I plan to eclipse my previous attempts: in addition to going without alcohol or tobacco (the occasional cigar, as required of someone who writes noir-style hardboiled fiction), and giving up …
