I read the Washington Post online every morning over coffee- or at least I did before they instituted a ridiculously expensive paywall. Now I scan the headlines on the Home page and occasionally look at an article if I haven’t reached my monthly limit of 20 free reads, which is better than the Times which […]
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Strange weather, or why aren’t people in government talking about climate change?
Last night at nine o’clock, during the peak of Rochester’s brush with super storm Sandy, I was standing on the lakefront in Irondequoit with my sister taking in the weather. It was blowing hard but the lake level is very low and the beach there is extremely shallow with a series of sandbars that reach […]
Going to the Idea Store
Last night I mentioned to a friend’s wife that I was writing a novel. Why I did this is a very good question but another rant. She asked me where I get my ideas. I was completely at a loss for words. I mumbled something like ‘I don’t know’ and tried to change the subject. […]
Inspiration Is For Amateurs (Mustang Sally Syndrome)
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I’ve ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don’t have to invent the wheel every day. Today you’ll do what you did yesterday. Tomorrow you’ll do […]
Stop Observing and Start Doing
I never used to take a camera on vacations. It always seemed that you either spent your time trying to catch representative pictures of your experiences or actually getting fully involved in those experiences. Going camera-less was my way of choosing the latter. Today, virtually everyone of us has a camera with us at all […]