Fiction Tuesday – Arsenal Reimagined

Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes The bookshelf was moved far enough by the Professor’s pushes to reveal a stone passage leading down a set of stairs. Nobody bounded into the passage and called back over his shoulder, “Come on everyone, and watch your step!” Bug followed…

Reading

The past few weeks I’ve begun to realize one of my personal disciplines had slipped. I wasn’t reading. This happens from time to time, as life and work conspire to distract me from doing real self-care, and this past Fall was one such season. I’d finished some history books in September and failed to pick…

iPad Pro Solution, Screens for iOS

From the moment I first acquired a 12.9 inch iPad Pro it has become my “every day” computer. I prefer the keyboard for writing, the touch interface for surfing the Internet, and it’s apps for email and messaging 1. I still love my MacBook, and prefer MacOS to Windows any day of the week, but…

December Fog

As I strolled toward the parsonage after Portuguese class last night 1 I noticed an amazing glow around the street light on our corner. So I marched inside and grabbed my equipment to see if I could capture the scene in a photograph. I love the many subtleties of this photograph. The glow of the…

Light Trail

Monday night I found myself gazing out of my bedroom window, fascinated by the lights our neighbors had strung along their fence. I’m not typically struck by Christmas lights, and “Christmas over-achievers” tend to frighten me, but I enjoyed the simplicity of their display. A single looped line of lights which followed an arc of…