I know a lot of people view birthdays and getting older as this inherently depressing thing. The unasked for sympathy I got last year when I turned 30 was kind of unreal. People were surprised I felt no shame over the big three-oh, or else thought I was vaguely delusional and still hanging to the ...
I’m having a rough month. Recently I received some medical news that is a little hard to digest for me, and is requiring a significant rearranging of my life. I don’t anticipate this meaning much in terms of not blogging, since despite my efforts I still only manage two posts a month. But I wanted ...
I started January the way I do most years, all motivated and awestruck by the fact I have a brand new year to fill with all the stuff I’ve been meaning to fill the previous year (or two, or three, or…) with. Here I am on the precipice of February, and I’ve added two measly ...
Christmas, to quote Billy Mack, is all around us. Let me preface this entry simply by saying I don’t believe that you have to wait until Christmas time to do all your good deeds. Good will toward people should be a year-round thing. But like every Christmas movie ever made will tell you, there’s ...
Some people celebrate today as Halloween and that’s cool. But the real holiday? NaNoWriMo Eve. If you’re not familiar with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), it is, in a nutshell, a creative challenge wherein participants attempt to write a 50 thousand word (or more) novel in the 30 days of every November since 2000. Now, ...