What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes I have serious mixed feelings about this book—although not, in any way, conflicted feelings. On the one hand, this a compelling, interesting, well written story that is nearly perfectly structured and kept my interest and investment all […]
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Feb, 2016 I Challenge You to… Random Questions
February 23, 2016 by 50 Comments
Remember those viral questionnaires teenagers used to email back and forth to each other in the early 2000s? (Maybe they still do.) They’re a ridiculous waste of time, but I always loved them. So today I’m harking back to my teens and hacking someone else’s meme with some totally random answers to some totally random […]
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Feb, 2016 How I Read: A Pictorial Guide to a Daily Routine
February 16, 2016 by 28 Comments
“What’s your favorite…?” was a common game among myself and my siblings when I was growing up. When it comes to the question What’s your favorite time of the day?, I don’t think my answer has changed at all over the years. It’s still: Reading time. I tease sometimes about how I guard my morning writing time with a flamethrower […]
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Feb, 2016 6 Things I’m Reading, Using, Eating This Week
February 11, 2016 by 13 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Reading: Scrivener Superpowers by M.G. Herron I’ve been using the specialized word-processor Scrivener for a few years now and have pretty much become a ravingly maniacal fan. It’s got a bit of a learning curve, but I got my Scrivener diploma thanks […]
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Feb, 2016 How to Be Healthy (Even if You Live at a Desk)
February 9, 2016 by 27 Comments
In Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth, Jimmy Stewart’s Buttons the Clown character says, “Every man kills the thing he loves.” I have this rather morbid theory that it works the other way around too: the thing we love often ends up killing us. Mostly, I think this is simply because “love” is usually […]
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Feb, 2016 7 Things That Have My Attention This Week
February 4, 2016 by 16 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: The Last Boy by Jane Leavy Ever since watching 61*, Billy Crystal’s loving ode to baseball legends Maris and Mantle, I’ve been interested in their history. So when this one popped up a long time ago as a Kindle freebie, I had to grab […]
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Jan, 2016 6 Things I’m Watching, Eating, Using This Week
January 28, 2016 by 14 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks Brent Weeks has got to be my favorite living author. His fantasies are incredibly realized, epically epic, and peopled with dynamic, realistic, charismatic characters. I’ve been looking forward to this third installment in his Lightbringer series. I […]
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Jan, 2016 An Exclusive Interview With Storming Pilot Hitch Hitchcock
January 26, 2016 by 13 Comments
It’s not every day I get to revisit my characters after finishing their stories. We all go our own ways, me back to my typing and them back to their glamorous, adventurous lives. But lucky for me, Hitch Hitchcock, protagonist of my recently released aviation-adventure novel Storming is different. We share the same hometown in western Nebraska, […]
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Jan, 2016 6 Things That Have My Attention This Week
January 21, 2016 by 20 Comments
What has my attention this week? Reading: On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision by William Lane Craig Reader Garrett Amerson recommended this one to me last summer after seeing I was reading the similar End of Our Exploring by Matthew Lee Anderson. And I’m very glad he did recommend it! I’m only a couple […]
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Jan, 2016 Losing a Pet (or the Ballad of Crazy Bob)
January 19, 2016 by 57 Comments
Losing a pet — it’s something every animal lover has to endure sooner or later. Last week, I said goodbye to my beautiful black Lab Crazy Bob. Best I can figure, he was ten years old this spring, so definitely getting up there for a Lab with a life expectancy of only twelve to fourteen years. […]
