Musing on…How Hardware Stores Have Changed
As my current life situation allows me to go back to a decades-long interest in woodworking, I find myself in lots of …
Read more...Writing Drudgery
To all of you not trying to get a novel published, let me tell you the worst thing about being a writer. …
Read more...The Vacuum Saga, Part Deux
With the faulty vacuum all packed up, I set out to exchange it. The customer service lady couldn’t have been nicer or …
Read more...The Woodshop Vacuum
For the past several years, I’ve had a hankering to revisit my family roots in woodworking. For as long as I can …
Read more...Writer’s Blogk…Getting Help
I mentioned in a previous entry about The Process that the lack of a MacGuffin had stymied me in my development of …
Read more...Rec’ing on…My WNBA All-Decade Peeves
In this tenth year of the WNBA, there has been much to praise about the players and the league. What about those …
Read more...Plugin’ Away…Kathy’s Outriders
As you can well imagine, me being a writer and all, I have a lot of friends who generate a lot of …
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Musing on…My Dad
I’ve known my dad for a bit over forty-five years…basically my whole life. He just turned seventy-three, but as his health is …
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A Pox on Collective Nouns
I have a major peeve with soccer announcers…not football/fútbol announcers, but soccer announcers (you know, the American kind). Almost every soccer match I watch is infected with a grammatical irritant that I’ve tried to scratch, but the itch persists. What bug is annoying me this time? The inappropriate application of verb agreement with collective nouns.
Read more...A Nice Meal to End a Long Day
I didn’t really feel like cooking dinner, but as there was nothing much in the fridge, and everyone else had already done their own thing, I got a chance to play a bit.
Read more...Rec’ing on…New B-ball Stat
As you can probably guess from my Ranking Project series, I like being able to quantify things where applicable. Every now and …
Read more...Stop Infantilizing Me
I was just reading about how my local lawmakers want to (and quite possibly will) pass restrictions on: cell phone use in …
Read more...Nifty Stuff…Bilsom Thunder T3 Dielectric Earmuff
Something that astonishes me is how people don’t put a lot of thought into their hearing. Of course, that’s hardly surprising. We …
Read more...Writer’s Blogk…The Process
For me, the most difficult part of writing is the “what do I write next” part. When we compound that with my …
Read more...The Other Ties That Bind
I think I’ve been pretty lucky to have had good friends for a very long time. I’ve moved thousands of miles/kilometers several times in my life, and yet I still stay in touch with the people I’ve met along the way. While we might not be part of each other’s daily lives any more, we are most certainly threads in the fabric of each other’s tapestry.
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The USSRing of the USA
Oh, the irony. Two decades after President Ronald Reagan targeted the “evil empire” for destruction, the current administration is opting, instead, to use it as a model. Too extreme of an analogy? Perhaps, but there is so much that Americans used to mock that many (including a seemingly disproportionate number of the flag-waving kind) now embrace. It’s really rather sad.
Read more...My WNBA All-Decade Reflections
In this tenth anniversary of the WNBA, and all the talk of All-Decade teams and whatnot, I thought that something more important …
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The Practice of Tipping
Though I am rarely in a position to be forced to participate in this barbaric custom (I don’t go out much), the very idea of tipping…especially expected tipping…totally offends my way of thinking how a society should operate. What astonishes me is
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