ometime back in 1995, I was browsing a record store (remember those!) at the corner of Ventura Blvd. and Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles and I came across a Bing Crosby boxed set called Bing Crosby: His Legendary Years, 1931-1957. I knew who Bing was, of course, and I’d seen one or two of his movies,…
imagine that nearly everyone has tried to keep a scrapbook of some kind at some point in their life. Maybe it was to collect ticket stubs for concerts or sporting events. Maybe it was for vacations or family photos. When I first started writing, I kept a scrapbook of my rejection letters, and later, after…
aiting for me on the doorstep when I got home today, Firebrand by Gillian Philip, courtesy of TOR Books. Looks like the book comes out later this month.
y ribs are finally feeling better. Good enough for me to get back to regular cardio workouts, which I began this morning. I was up at 4:55 am and did 25 minutes on the elliptical machine (I would have done more but my knee was bothering me a little and I didn’t want to push…
need a day away from the Internet so I am taking today off. I’ll spend the day reading, taking the Little Man to his swimming lesson, relaxing, and not worrying much about what goes on here. But I’ll be back tomorrow. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of your weekend.
s a premium user of Evernote, I get 1 GB of uploads to my Evernote account each and every month1 and I’ve never come close to reaching my limit. But this month, I’ve come very close to my limit for the first time in the 2+ years that I’ve been using Evernote. With less than…
ver the years, I have explored several different ways of managing my to-do lists and I’ve found that, for me, the process evolves over time. I start with one methodology and tweak it so that it works best for me, and then I discover something new. I try to take the best of all of…
(I do a lot of reading online, and I clip some of what I read to Evernote. Sometimes, I write about the things I read. It seems to me that some of these clipping and thoughts might be of interest to others, so I’m experimenting with a weekly post that summarizes and discusses the most…
few weeks back, I got a Google Chromebook. I got the machine so that I could have an easier time writing while away from my home office. I had previously been doing my writing on my iPad 2, using an external BlueTooth keyboard, and that worked out fine, but the screen size was a little…
have a friend who prints out nearly everything he wants to read. He did this with email for years, and I think he finally gave that up. When I’d send him a link to an article, he’d print that out, and put it in a stack of stuff that he wanted to read. Ditto if…