Category Archives: Meta

A Very Public Service Message

Make sure to check out my Year’s End post just below this one…and then, note that after today, I’m taking a brief breather from posting in this space. Posting will resume here on January 10. I’m going to recharge the … Continue reading

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2021. I didn’t love you, but I loved parts of you.

It’s time for my annual look back at the year that was. I did this every year on Byzantium’s Shores, and now I do it here. Generally, 2021 wasn’t terrible for me personally, even though it was not a fantastic year … Continue reading

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Oh, and by the way…

…I will write a few more posts about our Hawaiian adventure, but first I want to get all my photos from that trip organized into albums on Flickr, while the adventure is fresh on my mind. I don’t want to … Continue reading

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A test! (And a picture)

Nothing really to say here! I’m just trying out WordPress’s mobile app, for those moments when I am away from the computer but am also just DYING to post something. Also, here’s a photo of my street, taken using the … Continue reading

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“All right, Mr. Sulu. Let’s see what she’s got!”

Well, here we are! As noted the other day, I’ve been thinking about permanently moving my blogging operations to this site, and retiring Byzantium’s Shores after nearly twenty years of service. As you might surmise…I’m generally the type of person who, … Continue reading

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Under the Hood

Greetings, programs! You may notice a bunch of new content here all of a sudden. This is because I am very strongly leaning toward migrating the content of Byzantium’s Shores to this space, and closing down operations over there. I think … Continue reading

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The 20s are upon us!!!

It’s 2020, and that means that the Twenties are now upon us. I wrote some thoughts and collected some links to writings from the last ten years that I particularly like over on Byzantium’s Shores, and I provide the links here. … Continue reading

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[taps microphone] Is this thing on?

Greetings, Programs! Welp, I haven’t been very good about posting here lately, have I? Three months is…bad. But I’m still around, and still hoping to add more content to this space (as well as others…but nothing I can really discuss … Continue reading

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2018: You may fire when ready.

Hey all! 2017 is over, and 2018 is here. A bit of looking back and forward is in order. 2017 At first glance 2017 felt like a mixed bag to me, but when I really look harder, I got quite … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Writer

So I saw this little quiz-thing on another writer’s blog (Julia Grantham‘s, to be precise), and though I haven’t been tagged with it, I’m not going to wait. So here’s a bit about me as a writer, for anyone who … Continue reading

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