Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
I got up early this morning to try and write another blip of a short story, and naturally, half way through, I disliked it. It was one similar to others I’ve started: two guys on a bomber air crew get up early, meet after breakfast for preflight briefing, are soon on their aircraft (at...
Read more →Last month, I told myself I needed to find somewhere to plug in and volunteer some time, so of course, most of this month has been spent not doing that, but just thinking about it. I finally actually explored an option last night and at a work colleague’s invite attended a meeting of the...
Read more →Throughout my life I have been fairly close to the Bible. As kids, I and my brother and sister grew up going to Sunday School and church each weekend. We were involved with youth groups and church choirs in middle school and high school. We heard lots of Bible teachings. In high school, I...
Read more →So it was a few weeks ago that my oldest niece, with the help of my brother, asked me if I would take some time to help her with her creative writing. I think I mentioned in an earlier post that my niece, of her own volition, began to write a collection of stories...
Read more →Tonight, I lack creativity, so it is going to just be a journal entry here. Let me first off say that, while I am pretty excited and interested in the life of this Spanish guy, and while the book is not badly written or dry or anything like that, I cannot seem to read...
Read more →I thought this evening would be a good evening to try and do some archiving of some of my documents and images from various systems from over the years. In particular, it has been my desire and hope to go through all of my various old media caches (3.5″ disks, Zip disks, old CDs...
Read more →We are a river that stretches from joy to grief from vibrancy to decay The winds of time blow around us and the sun beats down For one day we roll from morning to night from spring to winter from north to south from summit to sea Find the pool and circle in the...
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I thought of a good line today, and I figured it was good enough tonight for an entry. And, pretty much, it’s all I am good for tonight. Romantics harbor wishes and wounds. Deep stuff.
Read more →This last August, I enjoyed going to my 30th high school reunion, if nothing more than to see a bunch of faces that I, 30 years ago and some, used to see day in and day out at school- although, in much younger versions. That’s the thing about reunions- for those that go, everyone...
Read more →I started binge-watching the TV show Longmire about three weeks ago, and after the first episode, I was hooked, for several reasons. For me, the first reason I latched on to the show was fairly obvious. Though the show is supposed to take place in Wyoming, it is filmed in my beloved state of...
Read more →I spent a pretty good chunk of the day today researching a little more into early New Mexico history, and I certainly learned some interesting, but challenging, nuggets about Spain in the New World. It is well known that the main reason for Spain’s presence in the Americas was their quest to find precious...
Read more →I’d like to say I know when it started, and why it started, but I don’t. I think I’ve just always seen that its been there, that I was probably born that way, and that I probably couldn’t change it. The other night I put up a post about going to Boys State, and...
Read more →I’m not the best person to reach, or to even talk to for very long, on the phone. I blame that a little on doing phone support at Intuit for a little over three years. I am also a fairly solitary person in the first place, and an introvert. I’m just not a big...
Read more →For whatever reason, this morning I found myself thinking about coming into my senior year in high school, and wanting then to go to Boys State. I’m not sure why I really wanted to do that back then. It wasn’t that I was a big civics buff, intrigued by government. I found myself chasing...
Read more →The question came up tonight at the end of work because I talked with Tim about my writing escape last week. I had used some of my getaway time to do some reading and researching about old New Mexico, back when it was becoming a Spanish territory and under exploration by the conquistadors from...
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Off of work today because the office was still closed for New Year’s break, I had some time this afternoon to finally go and do something I had intended to do for a few weeks. Visit my old friend Robert in the cemetery. Several weeks ago, the service celebrating Robert’s life was held at...
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