On February 14, 2010, she left this world for the next. It’s 13 years later and I think I am only now really coming to terms with it.
Loss has a weight, solid and unmoving. It lodges itself tightly, unshiftingly inside me. In a place that feels to be between breath and sadness; so large, that I...
What is our bebop?
An odd sounding question that only really makes sense once you have listened to The Day The Music Stopped an episode from the podcast One Year, that I heard in my 99% Invisible feed.
It goes deep into a story of musicians dealing with technological changes that they felt w...
I like to mono-task, and I like to do it with focus and intention. In my opinion, multitasking is highly overrated. I am never as effective with a divided mind as I am when I can focus singularly.
One of the hardest parts of this for me to manage is distraction. Something comes up that should just...
PostADay seems to be working for me and I am really trying to figure out why. On the face of it, promising to do A Post A Day does not seem all that different from doing Morning Pages but in the doing of things, they don’t really feel the same at all.
That could, at least in part, be due to expe...
It smelled of old coffee. So many things do.
My finger ran across the dry skin feeling puckers and bumps that I could not see, only feel.
I could see stains though; more coffee, no doubt.
Dust had worked its way into the edge where the skin met the wood. The dryness meant that it was still jus...
What I remember most was the chain. It was huge. Each link in it, bigger than my skull. It snaked out the back of a massive truck, down passed the end of the street, through the police barricade, across the sand and into the water.
The Belt Parkway ran along the horizon on the other side of the wa...
When I heard about the new ChatGPT Subscription Plan, I started to wonder how Viral Licenses, specifically the Creative Commons, could affect the progress of Artificial Intelligence.
Simply put, tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT collect, analyse, and learn from large sets of data they find b...
Don’t get me wrong. I love the Admin Bar that WordPress shows on sites that I maintain. But, there are a few things that I want to change.
- Move the Admin Bar to the bottom of the screen.
The top of the screen is prime real estate. And on sites that I maintain, I tend to design/tweak themes. So,...
A few days ago, ChatGPT seemed happy to help me look up some pronunciations; a few days later, it doesn’t want to help me out anymore.
Once I had a well formed query, ChatGPT had been very helpful.
I was so happy with the result, that I posted about it here. A few days later all of that seem...
For me, this year began with a resolution to simplify, to reduce the noise that I felt was affecting my day. I knew this was something that I wanted to do but until I stumbled upon this Vlog Bothers video, (ironically enough) I had had a hard time putting my goal into words 🙂
John telling his...
I sat this morning as the sun arose, drinking my coffee in the near silence of the morning. I had not yet drawn the curtains. So the faint glow of the coming day diffused over the outlines of the furniture.
Two tall windows. Side by side. The regular rolling rush of water outside. The smell of cof...
It’s no secret that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has started to affect the way we work as audiobook narrators. Usually, posts like this focus on how AI negatively impacts the work that we do. Here, I will talk about something positive.
Unfortunately, it has become more and more common for audioboo...
Like many other blogs across the web, this blog automatically sends out links about new posts to various social media platforms in an effort to increase discoverability.
Occasionally, those links to social media platforms “expire” and need to be renewed. And, since I have not been the most consist...
Posting regularly is an aspiration that I have noted more in its absence than its execution.
We do so much to try and jump start our creativity. And much of it is surface work — easily ignored.
This evening, I decided to browse through old journals, specifically to look back 20 years to 2003.
F...
Just a walk through town after finishing up a project.
Love and War in the Jewish Quarter by Dora Levy Mossanen
This was such an amazing audiobook to work on, historical/magical fiction. That doesn’t come up very often. This one really fed my soul.
Typically, when one hears the words Jewish...
