Here is this month’s list of short fiction that I managed to read. I’ve been aiming for one story a day from a variety of magazines. I think I did a pretty good job this month. Just like last month, the bold titles are, in my opinion, particularly worth reading. Old Fireball by Nat Schachner…
I’m back from 4 days in Newport, Rhode Island, where Kelly and I watched our friends Sarah and Jay get married. Wonderful wedding, great setting, and it even turned sunny so that they ceremony could be held outside. I was only intermittently online during those four days and so here is a consolidated post of…
More and more I find myself referring back to things I wrote in these episodes and it was becoming increasingly difficult to quickly locate what I was looking for. For a while, I had in mind a master index, and shortly after Episode 25 was released, I also released the first version of the Author…
Friday was our only real touristy day here in Newport. After all, we are here for a wedding and Kelly, being part of the wedding party, has lots of things to do. But we had Friday mostly free of various nuptual duties and so we decided to see a few sites. Two really. We started…
It would seem that I didn’t post yesterday and I hope you will forgive me for that. Yesterday was a travel day. We headed up to New England for a wedding this weekend. It was also the first time traveling with both kids. The Little Man is an experienced traveller by now. Far more than…
With less than a week to go before the start of the Big Event, I thought I’d provide some links to some of the posts I’ve written on NaNoWriMo that talk about tips and tools that I’ve used in the past. I have not yet decided if I am going to participate this year. I…
A few items of interest to those who frequent here from time-to-time: I will be away beginning tomorrow. We have a wedding to attend this weekend and will be traveling up to New England. The wedding takes place in Newport, Rhode Island. Since I used to live in Warwick, RI, we’ll probably end up passing…
It is Kelly’s birthday today. I’ll be picked up the Little Man a little early from school and we’ll all be going to an early dinner at a local restaurant that Kelly recently discovered. Most of the rest of my afternoon and evening will be in helping Kelly celebrate her birthday so I won’t be…
Sometime in the last few weeks, the Little Man crossed a threshold from rough sentences to compete sentences, including some clear abstractions. It’s fascinating to watch his development. Sometimes, when he is laying next to me at night1 I look at him amazed, not so much that he is a person, but that he is…
Today, Evernote is introducing a new ambassador program. They have asked a bunch of their hardcore users to become ambassadors in different areas of expertise to help spread the word on how Evernote can be used to make life easier in a variety of areas. I was asked to be Evernote’s lifestyle ambassador for going…
I’ve written before about books from my childhood that made some kind of impact on me. One of those books is Edward Ormondroyd’s David and the Phoenix. This book may very well be the first fantasy novel I ever read. I don’t exactly recall where I got it, or why I was attracted to it. Possibly…