I am trying to get back into the habit. Not that I've ever really had a great habit about posting before. The gaps in my posting history are like the rails of a rotted fence. I am starting off by taking it slow, a quick post last week. Now, I'm taking a quick look in … Continue reading Draft Folder
Just Visiting
I haven't posted regularly in years. Maybe I should feel bad about that, but somehow I don't. Life has been...difficult, let's say, in the intervening years. I've written countless drafts, numerous stories, and continued to work on a novel, more off than on, that will probably never see the light of day. I have moved … Continue reading Just Visiting
A Week in Review
I’ve been back to posting fairly regularly for a little more than a month now. I had stopped because life had gotten too busy; between sitting in front of a computer for 8+ hours a day for work, a family that wants attention, and a dangerous amount of sleep deprivation it became hard to finding … Continue reading A Week in Review
Tomorrow
I have been on lockdown since February 20, 2020. That was the last day I spent any real time in the outside world. I had a small medical procedure the next day, spent a week working from home. By the time I was supposed to go back to the office, we were on temporary work … Continue reading Tomorrow
The Joys of Working from Home
My entire life, I have always thought, "Ah, to work from home." The dream was to wake up, stroll downstairs to enjoy coffee on my balcony, watching the rats scurry to their offices while I caught up on the days events from NPR. After a breakfast of soft cheese, toast, and fruit, I would wander … Continue reading The Joys of Working from Home
Black and White
I grew up watching old movies; film noir, musicals, westerns, mysteries, Hitchcock thrillers. We didn't have cable, but we had a VCR and a membership to the local video store. My parents played films that they had watched on Movie of the Week growing up, or whatever happened to catch our eye. It was a … Continue reading Black and White
Is it 2020 or 2021? Or was that 2022?
We humans like to divide our lives up into cozy little boxes. From our genres on Netflix, and taxinomic labels for animals all the way down to who we are and see others. We like to force time into little boxes too; a 15 minute box for a call, a 60 minute box for food, … Continue reading Is it 2020 or 2021? Or was that 2022?
The Dream
There are a multitude of accounts on Instagram which advertise cheap homes. You can even further narrow that list down to accounts which show cheap foreign homes. I mean, foreign in an American sense. I suppose to the people which live in those countries they are local. Anyways, I happen to follow an account called @yourcheapdreamhome. … Continue reading The Dream
Life in the Time of CoVID-19
Isn't life funny? The timing of it all really. We all had hopes and dreams for 2020; a trip to Europe, weddings, birthdays, movie premieres. We had plans of a much more mundane nature too. Going on a picnic, or to work, or to school. And then something else happened instead. My family is, as … Continue reading Life in the Time of CoVID-19
Drafts
I have a list of Drafts for this blog. It has a several projects that I have just started, a collection of notes and thoughts; the genesis of an idea before it has taken flight. There are a couple of articles and their research that I haven't posted, or whose time has passed, no longer relevent … Continue reading Drafts
Sword & Quill 