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  • Backing away from Facebook around Lent

    Shrove Tuesday (AKA Mardi Gras) and Ash Wednesday quickly descended upon me and passed me by without notice. They almost did. I was out of touch with this year’s liturgical cycle, so on Monday, I googled to see when Shrove Tuesday was and the result mentioned the next day. I don’t go crazy and party… Read more

  • Back to School and Beginner’s Mind

    It does feel like I’m having to start all over in this midpoint of my life. I remember 15 years ago, I was so over school that I never wanted to take classes again. I finished my MFA and it was a difficult, trying time in my life. I find myself at another difficult trying… Read more

  • Unexpected Rant about Facebook

    Originally posted on my Squarespace page. It feels like I haven’t posted here in years, though it might as well be. The last post was on June 27, 2019, and it was about getting back into writing practice. This is always been on the back of my mind and the challenge for me is to… Read more

  • Through the Marine Layer

    Through the Marine Layer

    First Bike Ride of the Year Yesterday morning, I embarked on my first bike commute of the year. It was through what we in San Diego call the marine layer, that fog that rolls in over the coast and the city from the Pacific Ocean. Some parts of the ride was thick with ground level… Read more

  • My Web Presence History

    My Web Presence History

    My first website was made sometime in 1997 on Geocities after a friend of mine created his own site on that platform. I started from a template that created a simple, but ugly website. It went this way for a few months until I bought a copy of Dreamweaver and created more attractive HTML files… Read more

  • Reading: Griffin & Sabine Trilogy

    Reading: Griffin & Sabine Trilogy

    Books: Griffin & Sabine, Sabine’s Notebook, The Golden Mean Author: Nick Bantock Publisher: Chronicle Books Genres: Fiction, epistolary fiction, visual fiction, art book, toybook What drew me into the Griffin & Sabine trilogy was the conceit of them being a series of artfully done postcards between two people corresponding across the world. Griffin makes prints… Read more

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