Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Recently, I was notified that I passed my 14th anniversary on WordPress, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to give WordPress a plug here. I switched… | Continue reading
Photo by Mike B on Pexels.com While on winter break I decided to tackle some winter cleaning that I’ve put off for years. I decided to clean up my files and data and organize them into someth… | Continue reading
I am on vacation with the family, but I wanted to check-in quickly to let you know that posting should resume here as planned once I am back from vacation. Next week I’ll have a post on some … | Continue reading
Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com With 2022 now behind us, I can safely post my list of 10 best reads of the year, without excluding any potential late-comers. This is actually the second dra… | Continue reading
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com Over the years I have spent quite a bit of times on various experiments. In the 2010s, I considered the idea of the paperless office, embraced Evernote as a tool… | Continue reading
Photo by picjumbo.com on Pexels.com I. The Fiction Writer There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but ther are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, tranform a yell… | Continue reading
Photo by Paul Deetman on Pexels.com It is getting close to December which means close to our end-of-year holiday which means time I spend reading for guilty pleasure after a year of serious, hardco… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In eighth grade my English teacher[1. Name withheld. The only person I intend to embarrass here is myself.] told us that the figure of speech by which a part represen… | Continue reading
Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com Recently, I have been working on simplifying my notes in Obsidian[1. Details in a future post.]. One of the things I have wanted to do for a while is make th… | Continue reading
Photo by greenwish _ on Pexels.com I Sometime in 1993 or early 1994 I had this great idea for a science fiction story: what if television suddenly went away? All of the devices across the globe sud… | Continue reading
Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels.com Preamble My reading divides itself up into 3 general buckets: Books Magazine articles Online posts and articles When asked how I manage to read so much, my g… | Continue reading
It is finally beginning to look like fall around here, so I thought I’d share a few photos of the fall colors. The first photo below is from a week or so ago on my morning walk. The colors se… | Continue reading
Photo by JESHOOTS.com on Pexels.com Last week on Twitter Tiago Forte asked the question, “What is the best ‘self-paced’course you’ve ever taken? And why?” My brief ans… | Continue reading
Photo by Gantas Vaičiulėnas on Pexels.com History is one of my favorite subjects. Reading it, however, occasionally fills me with feelings of frustration and dread. For instance, I am currently rea… | Continue reading
When my kids were little, they thought I was so cool. Now that my older kids are pre-teens and teenagers, I think they want their money back. Every now and then however, a bit of that old coolness … | Continue reading
Photo by Gareth Davies on Pexels.com A few months ago, I sat down with a notebook and completely revamped my morning routine. I’ve gone through several iteration of this routine over the year… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Recently I have been carrying 5 index cards in the back of my Field Notes notebook as a way of jotting down reading notes for audiobooks and magazine articles. Jottin… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com A while back I mentioned on Twitter that I wanted to catalog all of the books in my collection. I was looking for the best tool to do the job the way I wanted to do i… | Continue reading
A few pages (in cursive) from my journal during our vacation in Ireland this summer. I learned to write in cursive beginning in 2nd grade. I can still remember that pretty clearly. We had sheets of… | Continue reading
Earlier in the month, I wrote about one small way I am battling decision fatigue: I wrote a script to select one random article from the magazines I read. Each morning, I run my script, find out wh… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Back in February when I had my annual physical and was not yet 50 years old, my doctor said it was time for me to have a colonoscopy for screening purposes. I said, &… | Continue reading
Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels.com It has been quiet here on the blog for a few week, but that’s because things have been busy lately. I figured I’d jump in here to say that, yes… | Continue reading
My editions of Boswell and Gibbon. Recently, in my reading, both James Boswell and Edward Gibbon keep popping up. Boswell’s Life of Johnson is frequently referred to as the ultimate in biogra… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Over the weekend, while visiting a friend from high school, I learned of the horrifying revelations of grooming and abuse in my high school program in the time just a… | Continue reading
About half of my David McCullough books. On August 28 I finished reading The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough. It was a milestone read in that it was the last remaining McCullough book I h… | Continue reading
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com When I read I am always trying to learn. In particular, I try to take practical, actionable lessons from my reading, especially when reading biographies. Recently, I … | Continue reading
My morning random article reading on the deck. I don’t know about you but I have been afflicted with decision fatigue for a long time now. Some of it comes from my job as a software project m… | Continue reading
I try to reading 8-10 books per month. With school starting on Monday, and summer winding down, I’ve started to think about what I want to read in the fall. Much of my reading is dictated by … | Continue reading
There is a scene in one of the Harry Potter films where Harry and his friends end up in a treasure vault which has been boobie-trapped with a “Gemino Curse,” a variant of the Doubling C… | Continue reading