It was nice to wake up this morning to gray skies blanketed over a strong flurry of falling snows outside. It was another true winter day, which I find a really enjoy as an alternative to our prevalent good weather in Albuquerque. Before I awoke to see the snowy skies, though, I was sitting...
Read more →It’s a funny thing. When asked what one can do to become a better writer, established writers often offer two leading responses: 1) Read more. 2) Experience more. (outside of the ever-present “Write more.”) I appreciate the advice, but what does one do when one is a slow reader? Or a slow experiencer? I...
Read more →In August of 2020, a friend of mine suggested that I give a book, “A Gentleman in Moscow”, a read. The book, pretty popular at that moment, was already known by me from advertising, but I didn’t have the drive I needed to pick it up and start reading it. “We’ll read it at...
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My goal this November was to replace TV and web surfing with, basically, reading. I surprised myself and finished 10 books in 29 days, which has to be a record for me. The last one I picked up to read was a nod to my heart, which at one time was so passionate about...
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We’re 10 days into November, and my No Media November has gone pretty well so far, I think. And I have to say, there are aspects to not having a TV available and not using social media at all that I would consider embracing permanently. For one thing, I find myself feeling a little...
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It’s been, for some reason, a tremendously slow reading year for me this year. It’s not because I don’t have books to read. I have a sizable stack of books just waiting to be read, and they are inviting tomes. I think its just been more that I’ve had a hard time making myself...
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...
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It was about three years ago this month that I somehow ended up sending a Facebook friend request to this guy named Derek on the East Coast. I’d like to say I remember the exact reason for the outreach, but I don’t recall what prompted it. What I do remember is, as a web...
Read more →My boss asked me this morning what I did this weekend, and I responded with a “not much”, because thinking about big activities, I didn’t really do much over the weekend. I watched a Lobo basketball game. I cleaned out the litter box. I ran a circuit with Thorson on the Loop. I paid...
Read more →I don’t know if you are like me in this, but my ability to get through books comes and goes. I don’t know if it is seasonal or what, but there are periods in my life when I am primed and pumped, and I can get through a series of books with little problem,...
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