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Tag: Life
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Vita Brevis
Part the second, you may like to read the first part here before beginning this essay. Life is short. As the technology and medicine has evolved and developed over the last century, the human lifespan has expanded along with it. We can theorize about the end of aging, and a postponement of death for a unprecedented…
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Refueling
I stopped and put gas in my vehicle’s tank this morning. As I stood there watching the numbers tick upward, I was thinking about many things – cosmetic defects on my beloved beater car, learning new skills, and the need for my mind and body to take time to refuel, and not just with the…
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Brainnzzz
It’s been one of those days. There ought to have been a post this morning – uploading an image glitched out, so that didn’t happen. On the other hand, my excursion to make sure that all the paperwork was indeed in order was successful, and that’s one big project off my plate. It’s not often…
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For Writers (and a Snippet)
I get into the nitty-gritty of my last promotion effort over at the Mad Genius Club today. I don’t consider myself an activist for Indie Authors (yes, I was recently asked that!) but I do like to share what works, or didn’t work, for me so hopefully others can garner some useful stuff from my…
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Powerless
I’m posting from my phone, and it’ll be short. The House of the Writer has been without power for 26 hours and counting at the time I write. We had a nasty storm rip through our area. All are well, healthy, and whole. So this is a nuisance but endurable. I could wish we’d been…
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Life is Flux: Curmudgeon’s Corner
Written by Sanford Begley Life is flux. That is a truism we are all familiar with. No matter how perfect, or perfectly horrible, life is, it will change. Now that change is sometimes good,sometimes bad, it is always changing. I am looking at examples of that in my life right now,and pondering what it will…
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Reap What you Sow
I’ve gotten in the habit of teasing my daughters, recently, when we’re talking and I’m reverting to things I learned from the Bible, that I’m going all Biblical on them. So here I am, doing it on the blog. I was musing on this aphorism the other day, and how we usually see it applied…
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Invincible, Immortal
I’ve been contemplating mortality recently. We’re all immortal. Until we aren’t. My husband and I have talked about immortality – it’s sort of inevitable, given that I write science fiction and fantasy, and those are common tropes in the fiction we read. I also read science papers that deal with combating aging – finding…
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Just Weeds
I did something yesterday I haven’t done in years. It’s a thing I’ve done since I was a teen, but since the move to Ohio, I haven’t had the room. Some habits, though, just don’t die. I picked weeds for the table. See, the Otaku Princess gave me a vase for Christmas. She thought it…
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Goal Setting for 2017
I don’t really do resolutions. For one thing, they are too easy to break, feel guilty over, and simply ignore. What I do, is set goals. Goal-setting is much more substantial than a vague resolution. I can resolve to write more in 2017. Or I can set concrete goals, broken into manageable chunks, and have…
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2016 In Personal Retrospective
It’s been an amazing year. It really has. It just has also been a roller coaster of ups and downs and sudden left turns I didn’t see coming. There were definitely times I had whiplash. But in the end, sitting here at my desk in a new house, listening to my children, I have a…
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The Long, Slow, Treadmill of Time
There was frost on the fields, and my windshield, today. I wasn’t expecting it. I knew it was supposed to get very chilly, and the house was cool (we haven’t yet turned on the furnace), but I didn’t see the frost warning. It doesn’t really matter, other than the extra few minutes clearing the car…