How do you know writing is a part of you? Somethingyou HAVE to do? After four years of writing and editing I still get butterflies when I finally have a few hours of unhindered writing time, which with a newborn can be hard to come by. The butterflies today reminded me of how important it [...]
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Don’t Threaten My Passion
Posted in Rantings, tagged editing, passion, writing on July 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Write or Sleep?
Posted in Rantings, tagged schedules, sleep, writing on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
To write or sleep, that is the question.
Hoorah! We can use the word “picnic” afterall.
Posted in Rantings, tagged picnic on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You might have read my rant on the origins of the word “picnic,” and you might not have. Either way we can learn a great lesson from this factual error on my part. I wrongly stated that the word had origins in picking a n*&%#* at lynchings. The interesting part is that I never heard [...]
She saved my manhood
Posted in Rantings, tagged skydiving, wife on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I didn’t jump out of a plane at 11,000 feet. In fact, no one did because of the weather. But I wasn’t going to anyway, and the best part—I didn’t have to look my cowardice in the eye and tell anyone. Why? Because my wife did it for me. She is a woman with [...]
Help! I might jump out of a plane at 11,000 feet!
Posted in Rantings, tagged courage, skydiving, tandem skydive on August 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So my chances of dying during a tandem skydive are at worst 1 in 250,000. So what! If I don’t do it I will avoid the opportunity to be that lucky one, the remembered statistic.
You’ve arrived up north when…
Posted in Rantings on August 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What do you consider up north? Splattering bugs, leeches, cut-off flannel, and beer cheese soup all contribute to my definition.
Outsourcing gets personal
Posted in Rantings on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When outsourcing negatively affects you, just find the local guy. My recent experience with AT&T has left me dumbfounded by how outsourcing can impact customer service. The reality is that the people in India (or across the Country, say Nevada) have no idea who to talk to locally. It is like them attempting to contact [...]
The death of paper books?
Posted in Rantings on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Could paper books and newspapers become obsolete with the advent of digital readers? How might this impact the knowledge gap between the poor and the wealthy?
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