I’ve already posted about my decision to restructure the History of the Entire World series, and my intentions to balance out all that researching and writing with a little more farming. [...]
"They survived by exploiting the meager lacustrine resources." Had to look it up. It means "They lived off the lake." Jargon: 1. Reader: 0. # "Ideas like [...]
(If you need to read the preamble to the follow-up, or the reason why a follow-up is necessary, go ahead.) After struggling with the History of the Entire World for the last ten years, I’ve [...]
In my post about best-laid plans, I said I was contemplating some new directions for my next writing project…and planning some other things as well. Before I tell you about those [...]
There are now Angora goats living right outside my office window. They bleat. A lot. # All I can say is…this never happens at the publishing company *I* own. http://t.co/HgR8b04L # Man, I [...]
I haven’t made too many blog posts recently. I used to post a lot more. About the writing process and about what I read in my spare time and about all the things that get in the way of [...]
March snow! # Heading to Oklahoma City on a sunny morning. Feel like there's already a country song about this. # Dear Colts: With all that money you're saving, couldn't you have [...]
Fr. Murphy's law: If a skunk decides to get trapped beneath a church porch, it will do so right before services on the first Sunday in Lent. # Google nearly starts a war: [...]
From this morning’s batch of email… Good afternoon, Here with the Better Business Bureau would like to inform you that we have received a complaint (ID 59162843) from a customer of [...]
Lots of very beautiful, very wet snow outside. Along w/lots of downed limbs and no power. Winter sticking its tongue out at us as it exits. # Checking through DD11's work, I find that she [...]
So after a much warmer winter than last year’s, we got to February 20 without anything really sticking. Even last weekend’s unexpected snowshower fell, and went, in the same hours. [...]
This week, two articles about education caught my eye. The first came from the New York Times. “Bracing for $40,000 at New York City Private Schools,” the headline read. And [...]