A month ago I posted about my planning process. In it, I wrote this: A plan is just a plan. It is, by its very nature, the one way you can pretty much guarantee your project will not actually happen. I mean, seriously here … something is guaranteed to go wrong. Something will happen in […]
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The Walking Dead
Perhaps the biggest change in my life since I started writing full-time has been the fact that I generally sleep 7-8 hours a night. It turns out that this is a huge deal. I mean, it’s a major, big-assed deal. Yes, back when I worked the corporate desk I read all the scientific studies that […]
Read More ...A walk in the rain
Is it wrong to whistle "singing in the rain" when you are actually just walking in it? — Ron Collins (@roncollins13) July 10, 2015 Yes, I took a walk in the rain yesterday. Yes, in the rain. A walk. Totally. By this I mean that it was raining when I left the house and rained […]
Read More ...Leadership, and the need to “prove yourself”
As we often do while we walk together, Lisa and I were recently talking about the framework that work happens in under in the corporate environment. At some point we talked about the fact that there is this need to prove oneself upon entry into a new environment before a person is accepted, and along […]
Read More ...A day in the Northern Guard
Advance Notice This is a very long post about my day with the Northern Guard—a supporter group associated with the Detroit City Football Club. Given the general tone of my blog and the readers I generally attract, I feel the need to tell you that, while it is certainly possible to write a post about […]
Read More ...Tin soldiers and Nixon coming (a wandering mess about Kent State, protest, and simple artistic respect)
I was going to post this a couple days ago when it would have been slightly more appropriate, but to be honest I didn’t want to put a bummer on everyone’s Star Warsy celebration of the May the Forth Be With You. Then comes Cinco de Mayo, and who wants to tread on the celebration […]
Read More ...A day in the life of a writer
When I left my day job, people I knew kept asking me “what does a writer do all day?” I wasn’t sure what to say, but I know I mumbled through it. I would report no that I’m still trying to figure that out. Here’s how today went, though: Breakfast Drive Lisa into work 40 […]
Read More ...Purpose (a Venn diagram)
I saw a Venn diagram on another writer’s feed a few weeks back. It struck me as interesting, but I stuck it into my “think about this later” pile because, while it made an impact for me, it didn’t feel quite right. Not quite full enough. Here it is: This morning, for whatever reason, I […]
Read More ...Found: happiness in a grocery store
In this post I will reveal to you a key to considerable happiness. It is, admittedly a strange key. It costs very little, and in the end never even allows you to know if it’s successful or not. Yet I find it makes me happy in its own serendipitous fashion, so it seems only fair […]
Read More ...Strange dreams
A week ago or so, I had a long-running dream about a boy who drowned. Actually, no one really knew if he drowned or not because in actuality he had just disappeared. But everyone assumed he had drowned because he was last seen going into the waters. It was a weird, Twin Peaks-like thing that […]
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