Okay, so I’m writing more despite not being rested. I couldn’t get to sleep when I tried to nap earlier. I think I could now, but I have to pick shadowkatt up from the dance studio and fetch sambear from…
2003 Review
I did this last year, and it was interesting to go back and read it today. I think one of the things I like most about keeping a journal is the ability to review the past without quite as much…
Time Wasters, Second Draft, Part 2
(Part II – still a rough draft) So I know I have enough time—I just have to learn to use it properly! Getting my actual use of time in line with my priorities is important to me. Some of my…
Time Wasters, Second Draft, Part 1
(Second draft) In my ongoing effort to live more fully and more consciously, I’ve recently been thinking about time. There never seems to be enough of it. I can’t truly imagine being bored in the sense of not having anything…
Time Wasters, First Draft
(First, very rough, draft) “I love to (X), but I just don’t have time for it.” “I’d like to learn (Y) but there just isn’t enough time.” “I never seem to get caught up.” How often have you used those…
Birthday, STEM, Writing
Happy Birthday livefalcon! I keep seeing those radio-controlled cars all over the place. If you have a kid in that range and are considering buying one, wouldn’t one of these kits be more fun? I have no idea how the…
Miscellaneous Links
WorldChanging is a feed for Another World Is Here. It’s described as “a new collaborative weblog dedicated to tools for building sustainability, democracy, open systems and a future one would want to live in.” I joined the mailing lists for…
NaNoWriMo Thoughts
Oh no! I’m having second thoughts about my NaNoWriMo novel! One idea would be a normal novel, a mystery. The other would be a series of vignettes that are strung into a novel—kinda like most of Spider Robinson’s Callahan’s books,…
NaNoWriMo
Well, I guess I am doing NaNoWriMo after all this year, since my novel concept introduced itself to me today.
Demographics Are Not Community
I wrote a long post about community to a homeschooling list in response to a discussion about “feral” children some of us have encountered, and nobody responded. That always upsets me. So I’m going to inflict the damned thing on…