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...
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...
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...
Since my birthday is close to the end of January, it — more than the official new year — has often been a starting point for me.
Yes, I did just make a post about not liking resolutions, but sometimes life makes a commitment to formal change necessary.
You see, my daughter grew up.
For over...
When you suddenly remember that your website is run by blogging software and the last blog post was about 9 months ago, what do you do?
I sit here and sigh for a moment. That exhale contains an attempt to let go of all the standard “noise” that fills my head when something like that happens; or mo...
It takes a firm twist to make the top of the pot come free. Once it starts to move, it turns smoothly in its groove until it comes away in the hand and is placed upon the counter. A lift of the tray filled with grains hardened by pressure from the last time. It gets turned over, grains facing down i...
Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1841, a “prudent and efficient” consul. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SYNOPSIS: A young, handsome traveler arrives in medieval Italy. He meets a beautiful woman, the daughter of an eccentric scientist. The young man doesn’t know that the old scientist has altered his daughter...
So far, 2014 is shaping up to be a great year.
I completed two wonderful projects in January (an audiobook and a website).
The audiobook is an interesting piece of speculative fiction by JC Andrijeski called Karma. The story revolves around two immortal souls that encounter each other th...
Sometimes, blogging can seem to get in the way of creativity.
Tearing one’s self away from substantial projects long enough to formulate a valuable posting can feel like a creative disservice. This concept probably seems “odd”, but should it?
After all, if the purpose of blogging is to draw atte...
“The first story arc, without giving too much away, is basically a simple ship chase sequence, battle scene, then daring escape. Within this, however, are mired threads of politics, prophecy, daring feats and some difficult decisions required from the commander of the Battlestar. Steven Jay Cohen...
