When in Doubt, Cut Down a Tree. In the Snow.
There are worse ways to spend a Saturday…
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What’s On Your Bookshelf: Why I’m Still Holding Out On Buying an E-Reader
The local Books & Co. had several Nooks on display the other day. I’ve resisted e-readers for lots of reasons, but mostly because of Amazon’s weird “You bought it but we can take it away” thing. If I download a book, I want to download it like a PDF. A file that’s mine. No DRM.
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Homesteading in Dayton, Ohio
I lost my last job because of the banking crisis, but despite that week of terror, I’ve been largely shielded from the recession. I was beyond lucky to get offered a job after being unemployed a week. Health insurance freak-outs subsided soon after. All around Dayton, stimulus money has inspired tons of construction projects. There
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The Mad Men Tango
One of the things that makes Mad Men so consistently watchable is that it defies soap opera conventions. We’ve come to expect certain things from TV shows. We expect these people to live crazy, over-the-top lives full of great tragedies and great good fortune (but mostly, great tragedies). We expect miscarriages, drowned children, car wrecks,
Women, Guns, and Gods: The Horns of Ruin
I found Tim Akers’s last book, Heart of Veridon, by accident at the local bookstore. I enjoyed it so much that I eagerly awaited his next book, The Horns of Ruin… until I read the back cover copy. See, it had all this stuff that annoys the crap out of me. I’m not a fan
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And The Walls Come Tumbling Down…
Our haunted house gets smooshed.
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What 15 Years of Rejection Slips Looks Like
Something for all you young writers to look forward to! One of the best parts of the digital age is that you will no longer be hauling piles like this across a couple of oceans and dozens of living arrangements. The historian in me loves that I still have a bunch of rejections from defunct
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Revenge of the Blogosphere: Haters & Comment ModerationRevenge of the Blogosphere: Haters & Comment Moderation
I started this blog back in 2004 as a place to mouth off about my life. It was a natural extension of the long and winding emails I was sending out to groups of friends. Back then, only the “cool kids” were on the Internet anyway, so I didn’t feel so strange about posting things
Hey, Jude
I don’t generally like to mix my personal blog with my day job life, as it’s a good rule of thumb to keep the two separate. However, being somebody with a chronic illness that most folks get when they’re kids, I have a soft spot for kids with chronic illnesses. I also have a blog