hile on my Internet vacation this year, I got to thinking about how it wasn’t all that difficult to be away from email and Facebook and Twitter, and even this blog for a couple of weeks. In the 2 weeks that I was away, I did check email every few days, but found that I…
hile I was away on my Internet vacation, I learned that pre-orders for the Beyond the Sun anthology, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, were available. My story, “Flipping the Switch” appears in this anthology, along with stories by friends like Nancy Fulda and Brad Torgersen. The anthology also contains stories by folks like Nancy Kress, Robert…
aseball is back and so I know it must be spring, despite the fact that it is unusually cold here (I don’t think it supposed to break 45 F today). Two days into the regular season and I haven’t watched a game yet, but I’m keeping my eye on things: The Yankees lost their opener…
e had some excitement yesterday evening. There was a fire in a house across the street from ours. I had walked over to the Little Man’s school to pick him up. We were walking home, and saw black smoke coming from the vicinity of our development. At first, I thought it was smoke from a…
t was one year ago that I started my Going Paperless series of posts and it’s hard to believe that the year has gone by so quickly. By my count, I’ve had posts for 50 of the last 52 weeks. So I hope you’ll forgive me if I take this week off. Instead, let me…
t had to happen at some point, I suppose. I recently took 2 weeks away from the Internet and used that time to contemplate life, the universe and everything. I re-read Walden by Henry David Thoreau, for instance, so you can imagine my state of mind. Reading Walden made me yearn for simpler times, times when I…
ust because I was on an Internet vacation didn’t mean I was on a vacation from everything else I do. During the two weeks I stayed away from the Internet I was busy writing stories, working my day job, and in general keeping up with the hustle and bustle of the rest of my life,…
n terms of both my reading and my writing, I think I’ve had my most productive March ever, which means my most productive March on record, said records going back to January 1, 1996. To explain, let me break this into two parts, reading and writing. The Power of Audio Books I started reading audio…
I am currently away on an Internet Vacation. I’ll be back online tomorrow, March 31. I have written one new post for each day of my Vacation so that folks don’t miss me too much while I am gone. But keep in mind, these posts have been scheduled ahead of time. Feel free to comment, as…