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…
Month: December 2016
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…
