Tag: planning

  • Invincible, Immortal

    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…

  • Chaos Whirlwind

    Chaos Whirlwind

    This last couple of weeks I keep comparing to living in a chaos whirlwind. The odd thing is, I’m starting to see that when the wind finally dies down and leaves calm in it’s wake, there will be more order than when it began. Years ago when we would play games as a family, we…

  • Accretion of Decisions

    Everyone knows how an oyster makes pearls. You start with a tiny grain of sand, and you add layer after layer until finally, there is a pearl. Life is like that. You start by making little decisions. Gradually, every decision, no matter how small to begin with, gains in momentum as it is added to…

  • Snippetless

    I don’t have a snippet today. For almost a year, is it? No, can’t be that long! Maybe six months, there has been a snippet of my fiction here in the Sunday blog post. Today, I don’t have one. I’m not ready to snippet The God’s Wolfling, although I have a few thousand words of…