See. I tricked you! You thought I was back and writing, but then I took another week off. Actually, I didn't really take a week off of writing. I have been writing and some other things besides, which I'd love to share in some way that's witty and literary and dazzling. But all I've got [...]
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Stating the Obvious
I just don't feel much like writing this summer. (That's The Obvious. Well, unless you thought I was dead or trapped under something heavy. I'm not.) Last month, in a fit of inspiration, I thought I'd recycle some old content, but I don't even want to look at the computer long enough to do that. [...]
Happy Independence Day
I have been meaning to write a post about why I haven't been writing many posts lately, but go figure, for all the reasons I haven't written about yet, I haven't finished it. So, I'm going to take the excellent suggestion offered by Wendy of Renewing Ruined Cities, who said I should consider re-posting some [...]
Stuff You Shouldn’t Post on the Internet
Spock - Evil Spock Image credit: Photo by Dave Friedel on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was going to write this post about Facebook. And Privacy. And Privacy's evil twin, Secrecy. And how when we say Privacy, we often really mean Secrecy. Because not only do well-intentioned but befuddled people confuse the two, but [...]
Getting Ahead of Myself
Image credit: Photo by dvs on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For some time I have been turning an idea for a novel around and around in my head... Oh, I know. Who doesn't want to write a novel, right? Nearly everyone who has luxuriated in the feel of taking pen to paper (or fingers [...]
Happy Blog Birthday to Me!
Image credit: Photo by soapylovedeb on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Happy birthday to me! My blog's turning three! Happy birthday, happy birthday! Happy birthday to me! Three years ago today, several forces serendipitously conspired to get me to pick up a keyboard, dub myself MPJ and write my very first ever blog post. Now, [...]
Are Bloggers Like Me Crazy?
Image credit: Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I hate that you don't have a blog," said a woman about to undergo heart surgery, as she gazed sincerely up at her boyfriend, "I hate that I don't know what you're thinking." Mark and I burst into raucous laughter and had [...]
Coming Home Again
Image credit: Photo by Elizabeth The Queen Of All Things on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately [...]
Me, Talking to Myself, About Me
Image credit: Photo by melody_nelson_ on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "We should write a book," Mark said. "We can't be the only people who have struggled through all this and I think we have a lot we could offer to other people in sharing our journey." This was a few years ago, back before [...]
Replay
Image credit: Photo by Great Beyond on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what [...]
