Monthly Archives: August 2014

There is a writer I’ve come to know over the past few years, and thought him to be a good guy. I even liked the novel of his I read, though I haven’t gotten around to reading more yet. But … Continue reading →

I accidentally left my mp3 player home today. Suddenly I’m aware of just how much I rely on it. Music, besides providing some ambient sound, is my caffeine, my mood enhancer, my brain cleanser. Today I needed it to be … Continue reading →

A Facebook friend of mine regularly laments how society is continually critical of women who don’t fit the ideals of appearance, weight, fashion, etc. At the same time, this same friend’s posts of late have increasingly employed profanity and vulgarity, … Continue reading →

A friend of mine recently posted a link to an article about how historians are trying to rework the curriculum to catch up with the times, so to speak. This is causing a great deal of concern and criticism by … Continue reading →

Next week marks the third anniversary of our move to Sandy from Boise. Time is a strange thing; it’s relative, warped by our own perceptions. The time we’ve lived here seems both incredibly short and incredibly long. It’s short because, … Continue reading →

I’m multi-tasking to write this post. It’s actually the night before this gets posted, and I’m working from home, waiting for a multi-step process to get to my step so I can “work my magic” and tell everyone everything went … Continue reading →

I want to post. I really do! But everything I want to say takes time to write–time I just don’t seem to have right now. Okay, I’ll amend that. It takes time I’m not willing to give up for it … Continue reading →

There’s a robot attempting to hitchhike its way across Canada. Professors at McMaster University and Ryerson University developed HitchBot as a collaborative art project. “Usually, we are concerned whether we can trust robots,” they said in a statement. “But this … Continue reading →