A few things are starting to shake out and I thought I might drop them here just because, well, because that’s what you do with these things, eh? BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY WRITER’S CONFERENCE: For anyone in the central/southern Indiana area, I’ll be a guest speaker at the Bartholomew County writer’s conference on Saturday, October 6. It’s […]
Read More ...Wife = Awesome
File this under: “My wife is Awesome” The set-up — I write all morning, and then we go work out together. Walk to the club, 45 minutes hard at the weights, walk back. We’re both pretty tired when we make lunch and veg out a bit eating it. About 1:30 or 2:00 I look over […]
Read More ...Lennon Story
Transposing this from somewhere else … There is a story out there that John Lennon was once asked what he had wanted to be when he grew up and he said “Happy.” The person then said that Lennon hadn’t understood the question, and Lennon replied that, no, the person who asked the question didn’t understand […]
Read More ...Serious as a Heart Attack
Now that the danger appears to be over and all seems okay, I think I need to apologize to Neil Clarke (@clarkesworld), as the data is clear it was a submission of my latest work that caused him to have his little incident at Readercon. I mean, how much more obvious can you get? I […]
Read More ...Real Relay
I saw this on Roy Gillett’s facebook page. Take a look. It’s a story about the Real Relay, an effort to actually run the relay course that the Olympic torch is taking. I think this is absolutely the greatest thing. It works on every level–it’s the epitome of the Olympic ideal in the sense that […]
Read More ...Reading the Right Way?
So, I’m finally getting around to reading “The Count of Monte Cristo,” which is a long damned book. Maybe three weeks in, and I’m about 10% done. Of course, I’m a grazing reader–and I read a lot of things all at once. For example, over these three weeks I’ve also read ten or twelve short […]
Read More ...Who Needs Batman When You’ve Got Robin?
“Oh, I forgot to tell you,” I said to Lisa. “For maybe the first time I’ve been saved by a copy editor who wasn’t you.” This drew her attention. Lisa is, you see, a remarkable copy editor, having made her living doing that for a number of years before turning to the darkside of Corporate […]
Read More ...What if You’re the Shoes?
I’ve now averaged 18,222 steps a day over the past year and a half or so (per my nifty Virgin Health Miles program counter, at least). For the past month it’s been 25,138. So, yeah. That’s good. Unless, of course, you happen to be a pair of shoes. If that’s the case, this is what […]
Read More ...Exquisite
I’ve been circling this story for three days now, circling like a prize-fighter sizing up his foe. I’m looking for the right opening, throwing a pretend jab every now and again just to try out his defenses. I did some math on it yesterday, and thought about the situation overall. What this story is really […]
Read More ...Peer Pressure and Role Modeling
When you’re trying to understand people as a whole, it’s important to understand that on average we will not tell you what we really think or feel. Sometimes we won’t tell you because we don’t trust you, or for whatever reason we just don’t think it’s any of your danged business. I’m like that. But […]
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