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I Pirate WHAT?!
I really admire David Sedaris, because he can actually making a living publishing personal essays. I particularly enjoyed When You Are Engulfed in Flames, as I spent five months living in Japan studying law there during a semester of law school, and I have an entire gallery of bizarre images appropriately titled “Weird Japan.” His essays resonated with me a lot, and I think any foreigner spending…
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Amos Burton, the Unlikely Sage
On the occasion of family turmoil, I’ve done a lot of thinking about anger. There seems to be a lot of it around me, although none of it is actually mine. I recently read Tiamat’s Wrath, by James S.A. Corey, and the dead-inside sociopath Amos Burton makes an observation so keen it sticks in my side weeks later. “There’s only a couple kinds of anger. You get angry because you’re afraid of…
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You Might Eat Organic Has a Home!
You Might Eat Organic Has a Home!
I’m super excited, because this week, Northwest Review, finally released their Winter 2021 edition with my short non-fiction piece in it. The piece is title “You Might Eat Organic, but You’re Fully of Baloney.” This piece is the very first piece I’ve written of creative non-fiction, and I’d been trying to find it a home since mid-2017! It actually was a finalist for The Malahat Review Open Season…
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Seven Days Until Ocularum Pre-Order Opens!
Seven Days Until Ocularum Pre-Order Opens!
I’ve been working on my second book so long, I had started to resign myself to the fact that it would never be finished. So, I made the decision to just do it, and I lit a fire under my butt by setting a public deadline for myself. Nothing like being accountable!
Being stuck in the 70 – 77,000 word range forever had to stop. So, I arranged to crowd-fund the pre-order of my next book. I wrote a…
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Odds and Ends
Recently, I have had a lot going on. I have been hard at work on my Compendiumoutline, fleshing out more of the first novel’s plot. It is coming together nicely, and I am confident that I will have a working outline in the next twenty days or so. I will try to flesh out as much of the series arc as possible, but it may stay a bit vague at least for now. Once I have the outline for the first book,…
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We found that we were one tree and not two
We found that we were one tree and not two
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is…
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What We Leave Behind
What We Leave Behind
It’s been a long time since I have given this blog a real update, mostly because I’ve been firing on all cylinders over the last 5 months or so, first with a trip to the England and Ireland in April with my mother and sister and then with the acceptance of my company, InFront Compliance, into the Barclays Accelerator Powered by Techstars in Tel Aviv lasting a little over three months. That…
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On Love (courtesy of mine) “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else." -- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Howdy, there. It has been a while since I’ve done any blogging, but in my defense, things have been and continue to be ultra busy. I thought it was about time that I hopped on and gave an update, although I really can’t update on some things that are potentially in the works, so there may be more updates to come on that front. As for life, it’s been hectic and great. I finally finished my craft…
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Droll thing life is— that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself— that comes too late— a crop of unextin-guishable regrets. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness (Wisehouse Classics Edition) (pp. 66-67). Wisehouse. Kindle Edition.
Deadish
Dirk: What I’m saying is we followed the holistic road today already, Todd, and it ended up with a man dead.
Todd: Wait, he’s not dead. They said he had a minor heart attack.
Dirk: He’s very muchly more dead than he was when he woke up this morning. He’s like five out of eight dead-ish!
~ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Season 2
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On Other Worlds than These
"Go then, there are other worlds than these." - Jake Chambers (Stephen King, The Gunslinger)
I have been blazing through the rest of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King these last couple of weeks. I took a long break after reading The Gunslingerearlier this year. I’m on book seven now, and I’m still trying to unpack everything from books two to six. There is something fantastic going on in King’s mind—how this series integrates with his psyche. He really lets you into the mind of a…
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. ~ Nora Ephron
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. ~ Nora Ephron
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. ~ Nora Ephron
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Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) Quote
Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) Quote
No need to live in trouble until trouble comes. ~ Roland, Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV), Stephen King
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On Loss and Mourning
On Loss and Mourning
Last night, after a couple of lengthy and very cathartic conversations with two incredibly different and yet equally strong and compelling women, I broke down and wept.
Earlier that evening, I was unpacking one of the waterproof bins into which I had stowed my valuables in anticipation of Irma— among them, autographed copies of various books given to me by authors over the years, my more…
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The Drawing of Three (Dark Tower II), Stephen King Quote
The Drawing of Three (Dark Tower II), Stephen King Quote
People like Henry always came back, because people like Henry did know how to use. First they changed trust into need, then they changed need into a drug, and one that was done, they–what was Eddie’s word for it?– push. Yes. They pushed it. ~ Stephen King
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On Unreasonable Expectations
Someone asked me, “Who hurt you?” I replied, “My own expectations.”
I can’t find an attribution for this quote, so if anyone knows where it originated, please pass it along to me to include, but it resonates with me deeper than the usual pithy self-help meme.
Living without expectations, as other quotes over the years have suggested, certainly makes for what they call a happier life. I struggle,…
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