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July 3, 2023
2023 ~ Mid-Year Reflection
I’m trying to be a little more reflective this year and came across this set of prompts for mid-year journaling. Celebrating Publication! 🎉 Just a month ago, “Colors of the Sea” was published at Strange Horizons. I’m very proud of this story and still a little amazed that it’s in such a quality magazine. Earlier […]
June 29, 2023
Reading Notes, 1st Half of 2023
I’ve read 15 books, thus far, this year. I don’t have a number goal, but I usually read around 50 books annually. The only goal I have is reducing my “owned but unread” number to 500. I’m at 515, but I think I started at 520. 😬 I’ve read 60% nonfiction and those have been […]
June 22, 2023
Reading Notes, 6/22/23
Read Short Stories Deal Me In, wk 24♠️9 “All the Right Words” by Carrie Cuinn – Clever story of a “girl for hire.” Kind of subverts expectations because it starts very much like a domestic drama. “The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” by Violet Allen – The end goes in a way that I […]
June 19, 2023
Monday Miscellanea, 6/19/23
What Happened Last Week? We are in the “long, hot plateau of summer” and I am feeling it. I really shouldn’t be surprised that my motivation is low and my hours of good sleep are minimal. I get like this every summer. The benefit of keeping a (near) daily journal for five years is that […]
June 15, 2023
Reading Notes, 6/15/23
Read The Age of Lovecraft, edited by Carl H. Sederholm & Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock I finally finished my first book of 10 Books of Summer! Yay! I picked up this book while browsing in the library. I have a morbid curiosity in relation to H. P. Lovecraft. His oeuvre has been undoubtedly influential to the […]
June 8, 2023
Reading Notes, 6/8/23
Currently Reading / 20 Books of Summer Yes, I did go to the library this week and, yes, I did update my 20 Books of Summer list. Short Story Round-Up “I Think I’m Paranoid” by Angela Sylvaine – A twisty-turny mystery tale about artificial intelligence and the irony of nature vs. nurture vs. system error. […]
June 5, 2023
Monday Miscellanea, 6/5/23
What Happened . . . Today and Yesterday? My short story “Colors of the Sea” is up at Strange Horizons. I started writing “Colors of the Sea” in very late 2020. It had been a long while since I finished any piece of fiction. That was my first goal: finish the story. I figured, maybe […]
June 4, 2023
20 Books of Summer 2023
I was on the fence about joining Cathy’s 20 Books of Summer this year, but it occurred to me that fun motivation and relaxed structure might be exactly what I need to get some reading done during the worst months of the year. (Worst for me. I don’t get along very well with the sun.) […]
June 1, 2023
Reading Notes, 6/1/23
Read (well, sort of) Web of the City by Harlan Ellison DNF – Harlan Ellison is one of those authors I’ve spent quite a bit of time collecting, and as is the case with many of the authors I collect, I haven’t necessarily read everything I’ve acquired. Quite a while back, I thought it would […]
May 29, 2023
Monday Miscellanea, 5/29/23
Random Links How Should We Feel About Barnes & Noble Now? –The feeling of being lost in the maze of shelves at The Antiquarian bookstore in downtown Omaha (now defunct) was much, much different than being stuck in the maze of a redesigned Barnes & Noble. For one, I didn’t mind the former because the […]
