In the past few years, I’ve seen bloggers participate in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. After picking a theme, they post something about that theme every day during the month of April (not including Sundays). I’d considered doing it, but this is the first year I’ve actually done the necessary work of picking a…
You guys know I like writing challenges, and Dan offered up an unusual one today: If today were your final blog post, what would you say? My first thought was…that’ll happen?? I can’t imagine not blogging, but I suppose someday I’ll have to wrap this up for whatever reason – my own circumstances, or the collapse…
Before Project Liberatio came out, I published a Five Authors You Need To Meet Right Now post, through which you met some talented authors who have been kind enough to support my work. With Project Ancora just weeks away from release, I want to introduce you to seven more such authors, who have critiqued, written…
About a week after Thanksgiving, I posted this on Facebook. It led to a variety of comments. There was one odd man out. Yes, Dan, I called you odd. That’s what you get for liking that song. This post has a different point than “Christmas music sucks” (though that’s a valid point). The point is what came…
I want to tell you a story. A story so bizarre it merits a blog post. It starts with a broken TV. That broken TV. I know, it doesn’t look broken. That’s the screen that appears when you turn the thing on. It’s supposed to stay there for a few seconds, and then it loads…
I was watching American Pickers last night (the episode was called No Stoner Left Unturned. Ha.), and the guy Mike and Frank picked was an aging hippie guy in California. He was a real character, this guy. A free spirit. He was also an artist. In one of his bigger projects, he turned a Kawasaki…
A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon this post by Louise Marley. It led to this fun exchange. It is an odd collection of nonsense, isn’t it? And as a matter of fact, everything there has a story! Let’s start with this random hodgepodge of junk. See, to my kids, my desk is “that…
This morning, I taught the third grade class in the kids’ area of my church. The lesson was about Biblical figures who persevered through difficult circumstances and those who encouraged them along the way. To go along with that, we completed a seriously cool project with the main point being this: when times get tough,…
I’ve been quiet in the blogosphere this past week, but I had a good reason, I think. I was here: And here: And then here: Meanwhile, this was happening at home: Ew. I’d say we timed our trip well. I decided to share some of our trip because I’m a blogger and we share everything.…
Everyone knows we feel better overall if we eat healthy foods and exercise. Or as Chuck Wendig said somewhere, we would do well to treat ourselves better than we would treat a bathroom at Wendy’s. Turns out there’s a reason for that advice. I’ve been admittedly lazy the past several months. For a little while I was…
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