Christmas, to quote Billy Mack, is all around us. Let me preface this entry simply by saying I don’t believe that you have to wait until Christmas time to do all your good deeds. Good will toward people should be a year-round thing. But like every Christmas movie ever made will tell you, there’s ...
The last day of November is a day of powerfully mixed emotions for me, or has been for roughly the last ten years. November is the home of that equal parts awesome and terrifying endeavor, NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo, for the uninitiated, is short for National Novel Writing Month. Now, this is a bit of a ...
Some people celebrate today as Halloween and that’s cool. But the real holiday? NaNoWriMo Eve. If you’re not familiar with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), it is, in a nutshell, a creative challenge wherein participants attempt to write a 50 thousand word (or more) novel in the 30 days of every November since 2000. Now, ...
Today’s entry may be a bit of a rant, but I don’t mean it as unkindly as the title perhaps suggests. I will preface everything by saying that I don’t hate children. I really don’t. My sister is the kid whisperer. All her life, kids have gravitated to her, even previously feral children. She ...
I started this entry several times, mostly in my head, trying to figure out how to approach it. In the end, as the con was two weeks ago, I decided to listen to Shia and The best way seems to be a highlight reel, as no one should be subjected to the blow by blow ...
