Update, and Happy New Year.
I've currently got more demands on my time than I have willpower to respond to them, but I wanted to share a couple of things:
1. CJ2017, A.K.A. "Cari Hunter", has published her first novel, which I am enjoying thoroughly. As our friends might suspect, "Snowbound" is a hard-corps, Hurt-Comfort, Lesbian romance. Caroline keeps this reader on the edge of his bed, as she keeps her characters on the edge of death.
2. "I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am", or "Terminator and Philosophy" is full of interesting ideas, beaten into submission. It's collecting dust, while I read "Snowbound". When I have picked up T&P, it usually puts me to sleep before I can turn more than a page or two.
3. It's been a challenging Christmas: my MIL was supposed to fly in, and got sick. My Mom was sick and came anyway. Neither is out of the woods yet, but we're talking to them a lot, and hoping for their recovery.
4. My wife has been a patient, hard-working hostess, as well as a phenomenal cook. She *is* Christmas in this house, for which I am grateful. She's also a slave driver, but without her, the season would be bleak.
Some time ago, I mentioned to my Tweeps that I had wisdom to share on the subject of seeking and selecting a mate. This is still true, and I have every intention of organizing those thoughts in a way that will guide my daughter and spare my own life. The Reader's Digest version is this: I tried a lot of relationships with a lot of diversity of basis, for almost two decades, before I found one that really worked. Intellectual respect. Sexual compatibility. Career prospects. Recreational Companionship. Aesthetic appeal. Honesty. Singing ability. Sense of humor. If I look at those things one at a time, I can find, for almost every parameter, someone who was "more perfect". For every one of those women, though, there was something else that was, in the long run, intolerable. The perfect partner is not "The One", who is perfect in all ways, or even one necessarily perfect in any way, but one who is compatible enough across the entire spectrum of compatibility. My decision was made when two entire years went by, without ever once feeling the need to be apart. I am grateful to have found her.
1. CJ2017, A.K.A. "Cari Hunter", has published her first novel, which I am enjoying thoroughly. As our friends might suspect, "Snowbound" is a hard-corps, Hurt-Comfort, Lesbian romance. Caroline keeps this reader on the edge of his bed, as she keeps her characters on the edge of death.
2. "I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am", or "Terminator and Philosophy" is full of interesting ideas, beaten into submission. It's collecting dust, while I read "Snowbound". When I have picked up T&P, it usually puts me to sleep before I can turn more than a page or two.
3. It's been a challenging Christmas: my MIL was supposed to fly in, and got sick. My Mom was sick and came anyway. Neither is out of the woods yet, but we're talking to them a lot, and hoping for their recovery.
4. My wife has been a patient, hard-working hostess, as well as a phenomenal cook. She *is* Christmas in this house, for which I am grateful. She's also a slave driver, but without her, the season would be bleak.
Some time ago, I mentioned to my Tweeps that I had wisdom to share on the subject of seeking and selecting a mate. This is still true, and I have every intention of organizing those thoughts in a way that will guide my daughter and spare my own life. The Reader's Digest version is this: I tried a lot of relationships with a lot of diversity of basis, for almost two decades, before I found one that really worked. Intellectual respect. Sexual compatibility. Career prospects. Recreational Companionship. Aesthetic appeal. Honesty. Singing ability. Sense of humor. If I look at those things one at a time, I can find, for almost every parameter, someone who was "more perfect". For every one of those women, though, there was something else that was, in the long run, intolerable. The perfect partner is not "The One", who is perfect in all ways, or even one necessarily perfect in any way, but one who is compatible enough across the entire spectrum of compatibility. My decision was made when two entire years went by, without ever once feeling the need to be apart. I am grateful to have found her.