Today marks the start of a new year. Anew That’s the word that keeps swirling around in my brain. “In a new or different, typically more positive, way.” I breathe in thinking?anew. I want to be?anew. Can I go forth from this day?anew? Everyday?anew. What will it look like to others as I work to […]
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Shadow of Thoughts
In the bog of technical writing my creative muse wants to languish and die. She’s like a petulant youth sulking in the middle of the room with dramatic sighs and the abrupt declaration of being bored. Research has become the vegetables she is loath to eat, and not even the promise of dessert can induce […]
Games and Drama
I’ve been working on world building and establishing character baselines for a story idea that has been slowly consuming every errant moment I can spare from real life. This has had me thinking about character flaws, and that always relates to how real people act and cope with life. The worst of which many of […]
Go Forth In Fear
Test all hopes and dreams in the fires of reality. Weather storms that break ships. Drown in the waters of tears. Trust knowing it will be broken. Love understanding that it will be betrayed. Learn caution by casting it to the winds. And when you feel broken, And breathing is an effort Do not turn […]
Withdrawing From The World
I used to think that the best job in the world would be as a filing clerk. I didn’t know what a real filing clerk did, but in my mind I used to imagine being in a room full of bookshelves and filing cabinets where I spent the day organizing information and storing it. In […]
Rolling Stone and Glass Houses
It is everywhere you look at the moment, the August edition Rolling Stone cover. I first saw it on Facebook prefaced by a comment from someone completely appalled by the implied ?rock star treatment? of Dzharkhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston bombers. My initial shock shut my brain down and I had to step […]
What Is the Message?
A couple of weeks ago a video started circulating in my social media stream entitled ?It?s Not About The Nail? by Jason Headley. It is a situational skit about a woman sharing how she feels and a man struggling to listen when he can see a nail sticking out of her head, which seems to […]
