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Continue reading →: Yesterday Was Summer Solstice
I’ve been contemplating adding the word ‘pagan’ to how I describe my religious/spiritual beliefs. Or general lack of them, really, since the two words I currently use are an exercise in intellectual honesty. What they are, how I come by them, and why I consider them intellectually honest are all…
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Continue reading →: Ghost of an AnniversaryMuch like Mothers’ Day last month, there was a very tough day this week on top of everythign else going on. It was another of those firsts without Mom. This one is a bit different, though. We would have celebrated my parents’ 56th wedding anniversary. They met in early 1966…
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Continue reading →: The Benefits of Pencil and PaperI often say that my writing habits are eclectic. What I usually mean by that is that I write in more genres than a lot of people would probably consider normal. Or maybe not. Things seem less limited when I look particularly at indie authors in recent years. Yes, a…
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Continue reading →: What I’m Doing for the SummerIt’s easy to say that I’m in my first research job for the summer. It’s even true. But what does that mean? Well, so far, it means I’m reading a lot of scientific papers (and often re-reading because those are still mostly written beyond my level), becoming familiar with concepts…
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Continue reading →: The Return of the Monthly Writing ReportI used to do these, sometimes even weekly, to keep myself completely honest about the progress I’d made for the month. That’s still what these will be about, but I’m going back to monthly. On or about the first of the month, I’ll look at things in terms of the…
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Continue reading →: Storytelling Devices That Bug Me, Part 1
Before you go any further note that absolutely every opinion I give here is just that: an opinion. Those can change and your mileage may vary. I spent a few years as a slush reader for a small genre fiction magazine. If my tracking is good, in most of those…
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Continue reading →: The Academic PlanThe future is always full of branching possibilities. When I went back to school in May 2021 as a middle-aged adult, I’d gained admission into a general science degree in Mathematics. The plan was to prove I could handle the workload, get myself bumped up to an honours degree (a…
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Continue reading →: A Generative AI Experiment
You’ll probably have noticed Generative AI showing up everywhere recently. It’s probably most prominent producing some generally horrendous artwork on social media usually for a human to say either “look how creative I am” or “let me bash you over the head with my poorly thought-out view on a subject”.…
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Continue reading →: Level 53In the middle of a recent lunchtime academic conversation, I made the joke that I’m a level 53 human. It got the expected laughs from the much younger crowd (most folks in an undergraduate program are substantially younger than I am), but even as I enjoyed the geeky RPG joke,…
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Continue reading →: A Child’s BirthdayOn this day, a certain number of years ago, during what most people would consider a lunch hour, my oldest daughter was born. While it probably won’t be too hard for you to figure out who that is if you really want to, I’ve tried to make the habit stronger…
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