Fight One The first fight I remember being in is vague, and composed of half-formed memories that seem to waver, like I’m looking at them through water. Maryland. Beltsville. An apartment complex. We were behind the building opposite ours and there was something happening and there were several kids from the complex around and I …
Setting tasks is more important than setting time I had originally set up blocks of time that dictated what I would do and when, but I quickly realized that I will be much better off making clear lists of actual things to do and then doing them whenever it makes sense. For instance, I’ve been …
One of the reasons I chose “Living the Liminal” as the title of my site and the nom de plume of my blogging self is because I have, for as long as I can remember, felt as if I was poised between two selves, struggling to reconcile equal and opposite impulses. Stuck on the threshold …
I don’t usually pimp products and am constantly aware of the tension between my desire for minimalism and my urge for materialism. However, I do want to mention to anyone reading that Zagg is having a Memorial Day sale on this coming Monday and Tuesday and offering up to 50% off a number of their …
And so . . . after my whole long diatribe about what I have planned for the summer the universe decides to switch things up on me and force me to change my plans. Now, the basics—considering my health, writing, and learning to be my “job” for the summer—?will remain in place. However, I was …
I had originally hoped to spend about 6 weeks of the summer traveling to various parts of the country: SF, New Orleans, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Maine, Boston, and Vermont. Then I took a good long look at my finances and realized this probably was not going to happen. Then I got word of …
Just a little somethin’ I put together this evening to exercise the ol’ music composition muscles. This first draft was done entirely in Garageband (with the exception of using Audio Hijack Pro to capture the sound byte from Battlestar Galactica), using mostly samples except for the melody parts. It’s a rough draft, but I wanted …
This morning I updated the WordPress installation on my old Letters to Lost Friends site and ended up listening to the final episode that I’d recorded in July of 2008 – nearly three years ago! It got me thinking about my life back then, about my life now, about friends, and about making things that …
Wherein I muse about wanting to eventually move to Kauai.
Wherein I realize that I haven’t been consuming as nutritious a film diet as I ought.