It's my six year anniversary with this blog. Good golly does time fly. I feel my writing has improved by orders of magnitude in the past six years, but other parts of me feel I've just been treading water. Most of my progress has been internal, and not really evident in the real world. I …
digging ditches: the ultimate human achievement?
How many Potential Einsteins, Hawkings, or Nabokovs or Woolfs or Monets or O'Keeffes are out there stuck digging ditches or scrubbing floors in order to survive? How much art and literature and scientific discoveries are the rest of us missing out on in favor of that floor being cleaned by a person rather than a …
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Not writing is depressing
Fingers gotta type words, and mine haven't been. My blog has been stagnating, oops! And I'm wondering if this is having an effect on my current project not moving forward. My gears are rusting perhaps... I find that whenever I go too long without making progress on whatever I'm writing, I get really down. I …
Story number 4: JUPITER
I've completed story number 4 out of 6 for my resolution goal this year, and number 2 out of 7 for my planned collection of stories: The Planets. This one was a real pain, and I had a hard time finding the spirit. But it came out okay in the end! Even though it went …
Little islands of life
I like to take breaks at work to walk around and think, but it was raining so I walked around in the parking garage. With springtime arriving, the spiders are out in force, and I noticed that nearly every overhead light I walked under was surrounded and covered in spiderwebs, with multiple spiders clearly visible--a …
Jonas David 