actually writing blog: Reporting from another city, the day after the battle(s)
2025-06-01 15:05 MDT
Successful tournament participation! Game 4, versus Bellingham's All Stars, was an authoritative win: 217 to 78. (Watch it here: Part 1, Part 2.) It's funny how, when you're in the middle of a jam, everything is chaotic and you're not sure you're doing a . . . .
actually writing blog: Reporting from the field, just before battle
2025-05-31 13:41 MDT
Well, guess what: I did not sleep well Thursday night. Woke up all night long. Finally gave up on sleep around 5:45, had a shower and the rest of the morning routine, and got to work on the writing dailies. It was like pushing a boulder uphill. So was th . . . .
actually writing blog: In which, after long absence, the author pops up in a Salt Lake City hotel
2025-05-29 22:29 MDT
Hi! So, it's been a hot second since I blogged here last, so why don't I break the ice with business-NOT-as-usual? Today I drove from Boulder to Salt Lake City. Pictured here: My flight of tasters at Epic Brewing, which I had not been acutely aware was in . . . .
actually writing blog: which is precisely how it's supposed to work
2024-03-29 22:16 MDT
It's Day 9. Yesterday I tested positive again. But I wound up going home yesterday for a couple hours, while John was out and we would not come into contact, in order to do some laundry. And while I was there, I took the opportunity to grab those much-miss . . . .
actually writing blog: in which the author is grumpy for two reasons, one of which being a disappointing book
2024-03-27 22:22 MDT
OK, so, since the last time I ended a blog post with vague promises about "tomorrow," a lot of tomorrows happened, to nobody's surprise. So what did the intervening undocumented tomorrows consist of? Well, some of them involved me driving down to New Orle . . . .
actually writing blog: flip-phone replacement, part the second and concluding
2024-02-20 22:50 MST
OK so it turns out that firstly, the NUU F4L does not by default save text messages to the SIM card. But that secondly, there is a setting by which you can tell it to. And also, thirdly, the long-press menu for every individual text message includes the . . . .
actually writing blog: toodling along in the low-tech slow lane, 4G and app-free
2024-02-13 22:13 MST
So several things have happened between last post and this one--most excitingly, a couple roller derby bouts; most disappointingly, an abject failure to keep to my morning routine--but today I want to talk about/document/gripe about my poor flip phone. Fl . . . .
actually writing blog: water finds its level and that's a good thing
2024-01-09 23:59 MST
Hello! Last week kind of puttered out and took the Thursday blog post with it, but I am feeling MUCH BETTER today. Despite today starting with a physical therapy appointment and ending with leading a roller derby practice, I got a LOT of writing and writin . . . .
actually writing blog: the chronicles of a not-quite-wasted non-writing day
2024-01-04 00:29 MST
By golly, there is going to be a blog post today. Problem is, being all out of the habit of regular blog posts, I'm also out of the habit of regularly coming up with stuff to blog about. And it's no good asking myself, "Why did I start keeping a blog in t . . . .
actually writing blog: ceci n'est pas une new year's resolution
2024-01-02 21:16 MST
Hello! Happy New Year! Happy new blog post! [Insert ritual self-deprecating quip about not having posted in seventh months, assume appropriate New Year's resolution as read.] Things I did in 2023: Had two new poems published in Eternal Haunted Summer: " . . . .
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At right: Some of the author's recent thoughts.
Below: Some of the author's recently published works.
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2023-06-20: "Fiat Nox" in Eternal Haunted Summer
Please enjoy the Summer Solstice 2023 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer, featuring my poem "Fiat Nox".