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Tag: ponder

  • Cover Art

    Today I’d like to talk about Cover Art, I’d like to talk about books and other products and what they’re wearing. Because I’m confused. To be fair, I am approaching 41, so this may be a symptom of senility setting in. But back in the day, Cover Art told you a great deal about the…

  • Jealousy

    I’ll be honest – I’m a jealous person. I’m also impatient, unfocused, and ummm… I dunno. There’s another word that’s just out of reach but I’ll think of it. Later.* Bill Murray was recently given the Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center. There was a whole show with a variety of entertainers. Someone I…

  • Socialization and Doubt

    I’m writing this at 3am. It won’t be published at 3am, because I’ll want to edit it or delete it, but it is being initially composed at 3am. As we all know, most writers are introverts – some more than others. Some are so introverted you wonder how they can go grocery shopping on a…

  • The Various Traps

    We all know how hard it is to manage our time. And then as you get older, you start freaking out about the lack of time. Or a friends dies and you wonder what they left unfinished. Or your own body starts to betray you and you make a bucket list in feverish panic. Or…

  • Catering to Expectations

    We all do it to some degree. And before you go off on how you always do what you want, when you want and screw what anyone else thinks, when you went to the company Christmas party, did you dress like everyone else, to expectation, or did you show up looking like a crazy homeless…

  • Writers and Coffee

    There are these jokes going around that inextricably link writers with coffee shops. The two have been inextricably linked long before I first thought of being a writer. When someone says the word “writer,” our thoughts immediately place him/her in some café somewhere, listening to indie music, absorbing the aroma of coffee that has bonded…