Over the weekend, I finally got around to watching In Pursuit of Silence. (It was something I backed on Kickstarter, and I’m happy to see it getting attention.) If you follow this blog with any regularity, you know I have a strong appreciation for solitude and silence. So on a quiet Saturday evening, I sat […]
Archives for June 2016
The Best Laid Plans
Projects have a way of feeling like dimly lit pathways disappearing into the dark. Sometimes the path vanishes before us, and the best we can hope for is that we’re still heading the right direction (or that we’ll find our way back to the path). And sometimes we discover a different route was the better […]
Creatively Refreshed
There always comes a certain relief, and even an almost strange sense of confusion, following a big software release at work. And the latest release was the biggest I’ve seen in the almost four years I’ve been with the company. It’s not that I don’t write and do creative things when I’m busy at work, […]
In Stillness
In stillness there is a power louder than thunder. In stillness is an opposition to life’s hurried pace. In stillness, many great things are done. I’m not an all-or-nothing kind of person who believes that things must be done only one way — and that all other ways of doing things are wrong. If someone […]
A Bit Busy
With the biggest software release ever at the day job, writing, Not About Lumberjacks, Men in Gorilla Suits, and preparing for a talk about podcasting fiction for a local podcast group, I’ve been a bit busy. Things are beginning to slow, though. I’ll get back to The Juggling Writer soon — including an interview with […]