Category Archives: Idle musings

Vicki and I went to Italy Sept 18 through Oct 4. Visited Roma, Firenze, Siena, and Cinque Terre. First time ever & loved it!

Today, I get to rail against myself in public. Sometimes it’s what’s needed. I’m a being of clutter and chaos, piles of papers and books crowding out my creativity, the will to clear them away so weak. Seas of material, … Continue reading →

The only resolution I ever truly kept:  Make no resolutions! But I resolve this year to do less blogging and more work on the new novel.  The blogosphere, I have learned, is fiercely competitive, getting more so every day. And … Continue reading →

Yep, Vicki and I live in northern Colorado, and had our lives halted, outside the home anyway, by the Solstice storm of 2006. Fortunately, we kept electricity and warmth and were well-stocked in the pantry.  Hours of clearing, by snow … Continue reading →

Interesting weekend. My 9-to-5 job as a software programmer is currently in Crunch Mode, with an immovable deadline of a week from today for final delivery of the product. Lots of fingercrossing, puzzlement over why a certain process that used … Continue reading →

Said Samuel Beckett, "Habit is a great deadener," and I’m in the habit of citing those words often. Part truth, part excuse. There are always cookies, candy, nuts, all kinds of carbs and sugar at my non-writing place of work.  … Continue reading →

I want to talk about sloth. It’s one of my favorite vices. Especially does it kick in when I contemplate working outside the house, mowing the lawn, weed-whacking, picking up hordes of dropped pears, re-staining the sides of the hot … Continue reading →

Writers examine things.  They observe.  Infinitely curious creatures, these writers. So now that the website’s two weeks old, the blog too, allow me to muse about this process, what it means to me, and perhaps to you. At the moment, … Continue reading →

My wife and I are coming on to three years taking T’ai Chi with Michael and Sara Stenson, who themselves have done T’ai Chi for something like three decades.  Cheng Man-ch’ing brought the simplified form to the United States in … Continue reading →