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My Brain Is A Cranky Toddler
I could also call this “About Last Week.” Rational Brain knew book release day would be an emotional swamp. Rational Brain remembered, through the haze of concentration and the rising excitement of seeing my projects go live, that after the test flight usually comes the crash. Rational Brain laid in supplies for hibernation and made…
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Winter is Coming
Working in an environment that fluctuates with the seasons the way retail does, one tends to notice recurring annual patterns. One of my personal patterns is a cycle of seasonal moodiness. Maybe it’s my Irish/Welsh/Scots heritage shining through. The astronomical calendar claims that winter won’t arrive until late December, but by the old Celtic counting…
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Negative thoughts, negative space.
I’ve been pondering lately, as I sometimes do. I’ve been feeling grouchy, as I sometimes am, and so I began pondering the way that moping makes one semi-invisible online. FB’s algorithms censor downer posts, Twitter moves so fast that few notice, and blogs? Well. I know how few people ever see this one. Sometimes that semi-invisibility…
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Weirdness & Storms
Okay, my dream geography is getting weirder and weirder. I suppose that’s normal for dreams. ANYway. So in this dream I’m in Richmond Indiana, where I spent some formative years. This Richmond isn’t that Richmond. DreamRichmond has a highlands north of town with a bunch of little hotels and strip malls along a highway, and…