I've just been informed by some bot somewhere that I'm an "Active Member" of this community, and that I've posted some 50 comments here.  Which is wild, since I haven't been here.  I've not even logged in for so long, my passwords were flagged.  And I was never one to comment on much of anything, even when I was coming here, pre-2016.

I'm wondering ( Read more... )

Every now and again, I'll get a notification from this account, telling me that someone's having a birthday or something, and I'll say to myself, "Damn, is that still active?"  I thought someone might have flushed the account due to inactivity or something, but I guess that's the way of the world now...  We are nothing if not an aggregate of every ( Read more... )

Completely forgot to post my thoughts about entering middle age, didn't ? Somehow, that seems more than appropriate.

But that's not what I popped in here to write about. I've decided to put my money where my mouth is this year, and finish the MS of The Footpad's Road. Since I'm also working on book 4 and maybe 5) of the Cidae's Rise series, ( Read more... )

In a few days, I will be 45.
This is going to require some reflection.

April may be the cruelest month - but you have to look to June to find the full-on craaaaazy.

I am not Mexican, so I won't kick this off with the obvious reference to a certain international holiday, co-opted by US companies to sell beer and avocados. Truth be told, I probably share more blood with the conquistadors than with the native sons of the Americas. And it never really sat well with me that we embrace some of these international ( Read more... )

Happy Easter, one and all. Or Passover, or Ostara, or whatever you're celebrating.

Since it's been a while since last entry, the snowfall that led to Fort Ticonderoga in the back proved to be record-breaking snowfall... And now it's April, and the fort is no more.

I am a flippin' SOOTHSAYER.

It's been brought to my attention that there were many Saint Valentines - so many that there are conflicting accounts on which one we're celebrating - but the one thing that many of the accounts agree on is that he was beaten to death with clubs, and then beheaded. Out of that, we've resolved to cut out paper representations of our hearts, and ( Read more... )

Was doing some idle thinking today, in the face of all the activism going on in the world right now. Got to thinking about the whole "rise up" and the "99%" stuff, and why it didn't lead to a whole French Revolution/storming the penthouse thing, with so few having so much lording it over so many with so little. It seems inevitable, only a matter ( Read more... )

Hi there, and Happy New Year to you.
I thought this year I'd share some of the notes I've jotted down in the front pages of this year's journal. This year, they all seemed to follow a theme of numbers.

My List for 2015:

185. This is becoming something of a perennial goal, having been declared several years in a row. It started out as a whole ( Read more... )