[Pen/Pencil Review] Sort of… Bic Sugar Skull 4-Color Ballpoint
Happy Dia de los Muertos to those who celebrate. This isn’t a for-real pen review blog. It’s an “I’m not dead yet” pen blog – on an appropriate day for that. Today, as I was sorting through some stuff, I found this – a vintage 4-Color Bic Ballpoint pen in a Sugar Skull pattern that […]
[Life] Update 2: Can I Be Real A Second?
Let down my guard and tell you how I feel a second? Yeah, there’s not going to be any pen or short story blogs until October earliest. It’s not a good time or place right now. Loki is declining. He’s in pain and having difficulty walking. He can’t put weight on his right, front paw. […]
[Life] I’m Struggling
As you may have noticed, things have been quiet around here. That’s because I’m struggling. Yes, I realize that everything I’m about to mention is a First World Problem. Yes, I realize that many people have it way worse than me. Guess what? My struggles are mine, and I’m not competing with anyone else. My […]
[Personal] Updating Status
So yeah, it does seem like I have dropped off the face of the blog. And I did. I’m six weeks out of shoulder surgery and in well into physical therapy. It still aches. PT is not fun but necessary. I’ll be weak on the right arm for a while. I call the arthroscopic scars […]
[WHOOPS] Murphy’s WEEK
On this, a Full Moon Friday the 13th… I stand before you and admit that this week did NOT go according to plan. I MEANT to get a pen blog done. I MEANT to get a story done. Neither one of those things happened. I’ve gotten very little of what I MEANT to do done […]
[Writing Post] The Year of Unexpected Interruptions
The last Wednesday of 2017. Here we go, wrapping up the Year of Unexpected Interruptions. Out with the old and all. Just a reminder that I’m still taking submissions for the Cancer Can Suck It anthology. Deadline is this weekend. Please consider submitting. I am on vacation this week, but puttering about the house – […]
[Writing Post] Back to the Land of Something
I’d say living, but I’ve been living just not online. There’s a good shift back to at least a semblance of normalcy at least in schedule if not in tasking. This has been a giant learning experience, and overall a very valuable one. FenCon was amazing and I need to spend some time to do […]
[Writer Post] Is it Wednesday or Monday (Again)?
Days are confusing this week with the holiday being on Tuesday. It’s kinda like there are two Mondays – but it’s not a pen review day (though it did get me looking up something to help organize pens, though it’ll never be on the same level ever to Jimmy. He has a blog binder for […]
Circumstances…
Due to training at work, catching up from last week’s conference, and family events… this week’s blog posts are going to be off schedule. Just FYI.
[Writing Post] Writers Life for Me
OMG, what day is it? Oh right, it’s Wednesday and blog day. I tried to write one earlier…and here we are. Confession time, my word counts have been…sporadic…at best. The reason – which I am still working on – is because the Day Job is piling higher and higher with important and transferable skill projects […]