Painfully Hopeful

Did I ever tell you?

The last few weeks I’ve taken to skimming through the 9 seasons of How I Met Your Mother on Netflix. I’ve tried to watch this show before and thought it was amusing, but never liked enough to “binge watch” every episode. I’ve changed my mind, this is fascinating show. What grabs me the most aren’t…

Creative utilities

Yesterday I picked up a package of Mac productivity apps. For me, the big sell was a Word Processor called Mellel. Ever since I began writing in Markdown and using Scrivener I don’t use traditional word processors all that much any more, so it’s an unusual purchase for me. Melee is supposed to be good…

Unpacking Facing challenges

And the politics continue. In this passage some more of the attitudes which drive The Valleys float to the surface. Let’s unpack. Status update What customs did the people’s of The Coastlands break by moving out to the region? Satal’s words are actually important, she specifically uses “custom” and not “law.” When The Valleys were…

Fiction Tuesday – Facing Challenges

Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link “Please, sir, continue,” encouraged Satal. Her gaze fell down up on Walter from the presidential lectern and a recognition passed between the two politicians. What Walter was about to present…

Les Misérables

Yesterday my daughter auditioned for a local Summer production of Les Misérables. She’s going for Madame Thénardier, partly because she’ll get to swear on stage 1. In preparation for her audition we rented the recent movie version of the musical. It’s visually stunning, and Anne Hathaway absolutely nails Fantine, but overall I didn’t care for…

Isn’t it iconic?

I don’t often take photos of people. It’s probably my introverted nature, but pointing at camera at a person feels like a violation of personal space – even when those people are out in public with no reasonable expectation of privacy 1. When people are pictured in my photo walks I’ll often capture their likeness…