Happy New Year. Fuck Cancer.
I wrote a long blog entry that I was planning to post for New Year’s. It was a fairly comprehensive look back on 2011. In it, evaluated my goals from last January, reviewed my submission stats, and...
View ArticleFear and Hoping in 2013
One year ago today, I was sitting in a hospital waiting room as Mom underwent surgery to remove a tumor from her brain. And while 2013 looks like it will start off on a better foot than 2012, it’s also...
View ArticleA Short January Update
It’s been a busy month, as evidenced by the lack of posts until now, roughly five minutes before month’s end. I’ve written a couple of short stories, made a long trip home to North Carolina, and done a...
View ArticleOn The Death of My Mother
On Saturday, February 16, 2013 at precisely 8 pm, my Mom passed away at home in Cary, North Carolina. Those of you who follow my blog or my Twitter account will know this is not unexpected. For the...
View ArticleNothing is Certain but Death and Paperwork
Thanks to everyone who posted good thoughts on my last blog entry. It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks, as we ricochet between the emotional side of death (memories; memorial services; reminiscing...
View ArticleDream Big
For me, today would be incomplete without a brief nod to the fact that exactly nine years ago, on March 8, 2004, I started my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. It’s an anniversary I’ve noted before,...
View ArticleAnd Life Goes On
I’ve been back in Seattle for almost three weeks now, and in a sense I feel like I’ve been re-entering life. Slowly the mundanities of every day existence– like going to work, or remembering what I...
View ArticleA Brief Note and Well Wishes to Jay Lake
Jay Lake, one of the most liked and well-respected members of the sci-fi/fantasy writing community, received a terminal diagnosis yesterday after battling Stage 4 cancer for years. I highly recommend...
View ArticleOn the 1-Year Anniversary of Mom’s Death
I’ll be at RadCon, a sci-fi convention about three hours east of Seattle, at the time this post goes up. Just a sign of how life goes on, I suppose. But I’ve scheduled this post a couple days in...
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