The deal was supposed to be that once a day, every day this year, I would sit down for twenty minutes and write something. Whatever I write doesn’t have to be ground-breaking or star-making, but my hope was that it would be mildly meaningful, or somewhat substantial. I’m finding every evening though, when it...
Read more →I went to the fourth week of Marc Calderwood’s Basic Screenwriting class last night, and again, for the fourth week, I really enjoyed it. It’s not a heavy, dogmatic class, and it is also not a light collection of film reviews. Marc makes it a balance of focused instruction time, topical discussions, light exercises,...
Read more →It’s another night where I don’t have much to say. It is already 10 PM, and most any useful information I had to share is evaporated. I’ll see what I can do here. 1. I love GoodReads. 2. I need to see the optometrist, because I am also due to get some new contacts,...
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Today, it was a Monday. And on top of being a Monday, about 4 this afternoon while we were at work downtown, it started to rain on our locale heavily, and that little rain event hung around for a good long while. Thankfully, it cleared up before 7 PM so that the Isotopes baseball...
Read more →The truth is, I couldn’t see the road you all went down. I wish I had. It would have made life easier in a lot of ways. And I probably would have made a lot of people happier as well. But I’m not prone to efficiency, to excellency, to excess. I never have been....
Read more →It’s a weird thing. In a week I turn 49, and via social media, I find I am still looking for approval from people in my past. From old high school classmates who don’t really know me, to a grand extent. From old church acquaintances that I was around, but never very close to,...
Read more →After a short night last night, I wandered through the morning today with a quiet anxiety when I awoke from sleepwalking, somewhere after 10:30. For some reason, I felt a deep nervousness about tonight, which may or may not have been warranted. Tonight, I was attending my first HOA community board meeting. After a...
Read more →You can never quite get inside what really happened to someone else. You can try, I guess, but how far can you really go? How much can you really know? When I met him, he set me up in my room in the men’s dorm when I first arrived early that misty fall in...
Read more →Today, Kris Bryant, Cubs wunderkind and last year’s National league MVP, got tossed from a major league game for his first time ever, for pointing out to the ump that his called second and third strikes were horrible. That was cool. In the same game, Cubs starting pitcher John Lackey, grumbler extraordinaire, beaned 4...
Read more →When the morning rain was pushed out by the cresting sun and a curtain of humidity fell over the plain, he had gone out to see about trimming some bushes down. He was middle-aged and portly, too large, but his face was long and narrow under his brown thin-brimmed cap. His overalls held everything...
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I had a great time on Saturday going to the zoo with my nephew. With his brother out of town, I thought he might enjoy getting out of the house for the afternoon, and I thought the zoo would be a good place for me to take a few practice photos as I try...
Read more →When Cortez came with his expedition from Cuba to Mesoamerica in 1519, he did it largely at his own expense, and without the blessings of his compatriot, the Governor of Cuba, Diego Velazquez de Cuellar. In fact, Cuellar actually cancelled Cortez’s expedition at the last minute, but Cortez didn’t care. He had largely funded...
Read more →After the talk, after they had separated and she had left him out in front of the bar and she had walked away, heading to her car, all of the words said, he stood silent, stunned, shocked. That? That was how it was ending? After years together? That was what really happened, when he...
Read more →Tonight, to cap the festivities around my dad’s birthday on Monday, I asked him to go with me to see the new film “Dunkirk.” We both enjoy and appreciate World War II films, and when each of us saw the trailer for this film, we both voiced a desire to see it, so it...
Read more →Wednesday night, and I came home after work and vacuumed the front room and scrubbed some cat barf spots on the carpet and pet the cats for a little bit and watched the start of the White Sox-Dodgers game, but I wanted to try and make some progress- anything- on any of the books...
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