You’d think, since I work in politics that I a) would not be shocked by anything anymore, and b) would feel like I’m already doing plenty to right the ship. Apparently, you’d be wrong. a) I am aghast at the blink-blink reaction of much of the country to the blatant, naked racism on display from […]
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Multi-Party Local Elections?
I had an idea, reading an article on why nobody votes in local elections, and how some of it is that those elections are non-partisan, and therefore vague, difficult, or unimportant to voters. What if, when or if local elections became partisan, the system was set up to accommodate more than two parties? What if […]
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September 11
Today is my birthday. I share it with a national tragedy. I like to acknowledge both. For the birthday, I share it with my friends and family. For the other, I share it here. On the day I turned thirty-one, terrorists killed 3,000 people in the United States. It was a horrific moment of awakening […]
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SXSW 2014 Cover Art is Posted
I have just posted this year’s album art for SXSW, the Music festival in Austin in eleven days. But all is not well. SXSW has offered one track from each artist as a download (as a .torrent) since at least 2005. According to the Unofficial SXSW Torrents site, while there are a small number of […]
It has been a little over a month since I have written any fiction. Not a word. But I am getting back on that proverbial horse. A little over a month ago, I was offered a half time job by a friend, and I took it. Thus a third, part-time career was born. I am […]
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Ow
I am forty three years old. I have been blessedly healthy all those years, with nary a serious illness, a broken bone, nor a hospital stay. But yesterday, I had the pleasure of my first CT scan. Let me back up. Three mornings ago, I had a little back pain. Then the pain shifted around […]
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The unintended red herring
File under, “Lessons learned while writing.” I have a tendency to throw details into a story that explain a problem in my head, but are not meant to go further than that. But a reader, who is not in my head, reads that detail as crucial, and chases it down the rabbit hole until they […]
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Blistering barnacles!
I’m not much one for New Year’s resolutions. After all, I am resolving to do things differently better all the time, not just once a year. Last month I resolved to write more, and a few days before that, I resolved to stop beating myself up about not writing more. But I know it’s a […]
Another month gone by. It went fast, but mostly because I didn’t do a lot of productive writing. I hit what you might call a bad patch. I have never been the best at being relentlessly focused, and when you combine that with two creative blocks, well. Nothing gets done. Huh. So, are you ready […]
My darling wife alerted me to a post on Facebook, by a Friend of a Friend (so I can’t comment there, since I’m not Friends with the Friend… ugh), a post that began with, “This just in: ADHD also diagnosed as ‘childhood’ ” and linked to a blog post at the Psychology Today website about how […]