The ScriptWorks Fling happened over the past weekend. We had a kickoff on Friday evening and I could tell a number of people were trying to battle through the election results to find the creativity to write. It didn’t help that one of the ingredients this year was election-related. This year they were: The...
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End of the Year Surf Retreat!
In exchange for getting a first look at whatever writing I do in November (twist my arm, twist my arm!), a friend and arts lover has offered to let me spend a long weekend in a bungalow in Ocean Beach in San Diego. It’s two blocks from the water and I’m hoping to work...
Continue readingLoretta’s Office
Work continues slowly but surely on the Napervillains project. Jen and Ryan are doing initial work on a series of webisodes (is that still a thing?) that will be rolled out one at a time once all the animation is complete. Ryan has created Loretta’s desk and office space here (Loretta is the manager...
Continue readingGoals for the Next 12 Months
There’s a lot I’d love to do and get done over the next year or so. So much so that I think it’d be helpful to make a list and see if I’ll end up double-booking and tripping over myself. A couple of quick caveats: My old boss used to make yearly goals for...
Continue readingCouple of August Happenings
Oh hi, YES, that whole Ireland thing worked out great, thanks for asking! My left knee was sore for a couple of days after I was done but it’s mostly recovered now. And I got to spend a couple of days in Rathnew, south of Dublin, with my old boss from like twenty years...
Continue readingSweet Inheritance
So just weeks after I wrote about my uncle’s remarkable longevity despite a lifetime of unhealthy habits, he passed away one night in his sleep. It was a surprise in some ways, but also felt timely somehow. He’s on a long wait list now for a service at the Arlington cemetery, which I hope...
Continue readingThe Case for Adventure
I had the great opportunity to go on a difficult (for me) mountain climbing trip over the weekend. A group of 8-10 of us trekked up Mount St. Helens in Washington, which peaks around 9000 feet. I was nervous before we began the trip, not sure what to expect or exactly how to prepare. ...
Continue readingSo Much Fun Last Night
Great Brush with Fame event at Testify last night. All the stories (and the storytellers) were interesting. And I felt that addictive rush of nerves and excitement before and after. I like it. I’ll be back, y’all! (plus it was fun to see people trying to guess who I was talking about in my...
Continue readingA Complete Cleanse (essay)
In advance of my Brush with Fame story at Testify later this month, I’m posting the first piece I ever did there from about two years ago. I couldn’t really come up with a single significant story for their Coming Clean theme, so came up with a big old list of stuff. It ended...
Continue readingThe Internet Really is Forever
My kids and I unearthed this game after a completely unrelated discussion about expectations and contractual versus verbal agreements (it’s a long story which stretched the limits of what I know about the law). Anyway, this is my earliest official publication byline (March, 1985). And it was in the NUMBER ONE ATARI COMPUTER MAGAZINE...
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