Writer, Reader, Poet
It’s no secret that I would love to not just see my work in print, but to get paid for it. To me, publication and payment means I’ve achieved a level of professional quality in my writing that I’ve been working hard toward for a long time. To help myself reach that goal, I’m challenging myself to submit my work 100 times.
Continue reading “Submit x 100 Challenge”
Thanksgiving 2018 has arrived! It’s that special time of year again–time to gather round those you love and give thanks. I sure have plenty to be thankful for this year. Here are some of the things I’m grateful for, in no special order.
Continue reading “Happy Thanksgiving, 2018!”
On November 8, 2018, I went to bed early. It had been a long, complicated political season, but at last it would be over. And at last, women would shatter the final glass ceiling in American politics. As I lay in bed and drifted to sleep, I thought about how amazing it was live through this historic moment.
But past midnight I woke as if alerted by some preternatural sense of impending disaster. I picked up my phone to check the results, and was sucked through to a dismal mirror dimension. Well, not really, but since that day it’s sometimes felt like it.
Continue reading “A Starting Point to Understanding in “One Nation After Trump””
Warchild by Karin Lowachee is like a meandering Ender’s Game meets book five Harry Potter–you remember, the one where he was really angry and agonized, all the time.
This review contains spoilers for the story.
Continue reading ““Warchild”–A Tortured Young Man Caught Between Worlds”
A couple times a year, I get the itch… the itch to resubscribe to World of Warcraft. Last week, I gave in.
Continue reading “When World of Warcraft Drags You Back”
This weekend I reached a writing milestone for the first draft of Orphic: 15,000 words written!
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone, but living with untreated sleep apnea is utterly exhausting. Unfortunately, treating it can be pretty annoying, too. Continue reading “The Inconvenience of Treating Sleep Apnea”
One of my primary goals at work is to improve the search function in our knowledge base. There are a handful of tools in ServiceNow to make this happen, but one of the most powerful is using meta. Continue reading “Meta Maps to Improve SEO for Knowledge in ServiceNow”
As a leader, you soon learn: You can’t please all people all the time. Continue reading “Leaders Can’t Be People-Pleasers”
“I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I’m not.”
Now that I have a few years of (fairly) consistent running under my belt, I can tell you definitively: I am not a good or fast runner, and I rarely enjoy it. Continue reading “When Running Frustrates Me (I Keep Running)”
