Two days ago, this blog turned 15 years old. I was coming up on the final months at my job at the time (only, I didn’t know it: I planned to leave the following summer, but ended up laid off the week before Christmas), and I decided to have a place to really talk about […]
Ninth Annual Writing Retreat
The end of 2022 was a bit of a blur. With the holidays, a busy time at work, and the annual November and December episodes of Not About Lumberjacks, I never got around to writing about the 9th annual writing retreat. The Retreat that Almost Wasn’t The 8th annual retreat was a return to East […]
Eighth Annual Writing Retreat
In 2013, a friend and I decided to take a long weekend, get a cabin in East Texas, and focus on writing for a few days. It became an annual thing until last year, when — like so many other events — we canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With both of us now fully […]