This is Not Normal. This Is Not Acceptable. On Day 1 of the first Trump administration, I watched, mouth open, as his press secretary lied about something so seemingly unimportant that it boggled my mind: the size of the crowd at the inauguration. It was—we could all see with our own eyes—not the biggest crowd… Continue reading Say It Out Loud
Category: Me
Anti Social-Media
(not “anti-social media”) How I Use The Internet Now tl;dr: I’m going back to using RSS feeds to curate my own experience of the web and here’s why (and how) jump straight to the tools section The Ancient World (Wide Web) I got online in 1993, like a second-wave immigrant. I never used Usenet or… Continue reading Anti Social-Media
We are all Zelenskyy
“I would like Trump’s team to be more truthful,” said Vlodymyr Zelenskyy, today, speaking for all of us. Source When I went and looked at what he was responding to I may have (once again) screamed into the void: YOU CANT JUST SAY STUFF AND HAVE IT BE “TRUE”!!! Except, apparently you can just say… Continue reading We are all Zelenskyy
Back to Blogging
OK, I was – briefly – using this blog for one of my business ventures, but I’m reclaiming it as my space online. I need somewhere to just be me. Yeah, I got sucked in to social media, and didn’t we all stop blogging when Facebook came along? And aren’t we all now regretting it?… Continue reading Back to Blogging
Test Member
testing to see if the CK member access is useful
Let The Summer Time Roll
I enjoyed our two weeks away, and it was definitely long enough for me to start thinking about all the things I wanted to do when I got back. There are many writing-related things, of course, but I’m trying to let them take a back-seat to family life, since I have my boys (9 and… Continue reading Let The Summer Time Roll
One Decade On
Exactly ten years ago this morning, I saw two pink lines on a pregnancy test for the first time ever. I had waited some time to see them, then instantly forgot whether two lines meant yes or no. It’s been a quick decade, thanks to my lovely boys.
Change Your WordPress.com Blog’s Subtitle/Tagline
Along with the sample first post and the sample first comment, WordPress has an annoying habit of putting an automatic subtitle on all new blogs. It reads “Just Another WordPress Blog” and looks like this: Now, I’m a fan of WordPress and all, , but I don’t really want that as my subhead. To change… Continue reading Change Your WordPress.com Blog’s Subtitle/Tagline
Novelling Demon
I wrote seven thousand words on my novel today. Seven thousand! I feel great. Apart from the slight ringing in my ears. (Is it possible to break your brain?) More importantly I learned a lot. But I’m going to have to get away from the computer, so you’ll have to wait to hear about my… Continue reading Novelling Demon
Tick that Box
So I voted this morning. I’ve only done that twice in my life before, and the last time was at some point in the early 1990s when I was still a student 1. With all the hoopla over recent elections in the US (hanging chads, anyone?) I was under the impression that everyone had these… Continue reading Tick that Box