Snippet: Sanitized

06 Apr 2017

I am freaking out. I woke, naked, on a stainless steel table. I think it was the cold that woke me. The pervasive chill of disinfectant and whit...

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Gone Coding

03 Apr 2017

I can't describe how strange it feels to be done with a book and to do nothing with it. There was a time I even toyed with the approach of writing ...

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Snippet: Little Things

30 Mar 2017

I am intruding on someone else's secrets. In the spreading warmth of the early summer morning, I retreated into an outcropping's shadow, only to...

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I knew this would be a big week.

28 Mar 2017

Sunday morning I shifted focus to completing the Grammarly/ProWritingAid pass on Flotsam so I could hopefully time another print proof with the fin...

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Snippet: Broken Chair

23 Mar 2017

I am here to make my contribution to the well of human detritus. To make the evidence of my unwanted disappear. My home with fresh available space,...

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Fixing a Situation

21 Mar 2017

Last year I began to add practices to my morning routine. I still feel they were valuable practices, but they were each taking a few minutes away f...

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Snippet: The Valley

16 Mar 2017

I am on my way to the coast, but the ridgeline forced me North for a day. I spent a rainy night huddled, miserable, below dense pine trees, and now...

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Writing Update: Thoughts, Plans, and Process

14 Mar 2017

Snow day today! Work closed and there's a state-wide travel ban. We are expecting up to two feet of snow before it's done, so I have extra time...

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Snippet: Dinosaurs and Rockets

09 Mar 2017

I am less hopeful about today's tests than the technicians who struggle to strap attempt #36 onto the dinosaur standing on the launch platform. The...

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Author Update - Bullet Time

07 Mar 2017

Last week I got news which shattered my little brain. I had extreme trouble getting to the computer, and I decided to let my mind wrap around and p...

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