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NaNoWriMo – 2018
I mentioned at one point that it would be great to get a bunch of big projects behind me at work and at the hangar and at home so that I could spend November slaving away at the keyboard being creative...
View Article2192 Days
2192 days 2286 articles published 5576 photos/images 50 videos 5 audio files 1999 comments (c’mon, someone be the 2,000th!) The prize for the most comments, by well over a factor of three, is Jemima...
View ArticleMeditation Might Be Worthless
Hear me out on this one… I’ve never been much of a meditation sort of guy. Too much of a class clown. Not a big believer in the “woo-woo” side of life. But I’ve mellowed with age. I’m long, LONG past...
View ArticleHappy 7th Birthday, WLTSTF!
April 29, 2013, first post. I think this year more than any other since then I can relate to how and why I started this site as my world was turning upside down and the foundations of my zeitgeist was...
View ArticleInfinite Corporate Stupidity
I took some really nice pictures of the full moon rising tonight. I can’t show them to you on my website, because WordPress in their INFINITE CORPORATE STUPIDITY has “upgraded” their editor. They’ve...
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With A Little Help From My Friends – October 03
Thanks to suggestions from fellow writers & bloggers Wendy and Jemima, I think I’ve regained control of my WordPress editor. I’m grateful for their help – if the WordPress customer support had been...
View ArticleA Curiosity Question
WordPress tells me that there are over 500 folks who have “subscribed” to this site, who get a notice whenever I publish anything. Which is pretty much every day. And depending on what drivel I’m...
View ArticleHappy 8th Birthday, WLTSTF!
8 years. 2,921 days. 3,014 posts. 7,111 images. (About 90% are taken by me. The rest are images from the news, from cell phone screen captures, and so on.) 62 videos. 7 audio clips. 2.6K comments. And...
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The Power Of Meaningless Stickers
In kindergarten and early grades, there’s a lot of motivation to be found in a cheap, meaningless sticker. Do well and get a green one – need some improvement and get a red one. Get a whole sheet of...
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No Context For You – October 26th
Wow, it’s been 25 days since I’ve had to default to one of these at about 23:30 in order to come up with a post for the day. That new iPhone has made a huge difference in this month’s posts! I note...
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Venice And Sapsucker Woods
This finish line crossed The race won for the moment Time to relax, to read, to breathe – tonight 00:43:29 at the pond’s edge, no birds to be found at the feeder But small critters occasionally scurry...
View ArticleHappy 9th Birthday, WLTSTF!
9 years. 3,288 days. 3,380 posts. 7,917 images. (90%+ are taken by me. The rest are images from the news, from cell phone screen captures, and so on.) 67 videos. 9 audio clips. 2,670 total comments....
View ArticleFlash Fiction Revival?
Those of you who are new-ish around here might not be aware that, way back in 2013 when this site got started, one of the key features was a more-or-less weekly post centered around Chuck Wendig’s...
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Flash Fiction: Mine Flowers
A couple of weeks ago, the most wonderful Chuck Wendig (maybe I’ll get a chance to finally meet him and thank him in person at Worldcon? Dare I hope?) said he was thinking of reviving his Flash Fiction...
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Flash Fiction: Doors
This week Chuck Wendig gave us a Flash Fiction Challenge composed of five AI produced images with a theme of “doorways.” I put a picture of all five of them up and let it simmer. This afternoon during...
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No Context For You – September 16th
While I know where and when the picture was taken, I don’t know what it is, what it does, or whose sneaker that is. I’m pretty sure it’s not mine. In other not-so-riveting news, you may noticed that...
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Persistance Awards
I’ve mentioned before (here) that WordPress gives you an “atta boy!” notification any time you post more than five or six days in a row. And, as a reminder, I’m easily amused, so it becomes a thing to...
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Ten Years Of WLTSTF
It snuck up on me. It wasn’t until this afternoon that I realized that today is the 10th anniversary of my starting this website. I guess this is sort of a big one. 10 years. 3,653 days. 3,745 posts....
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2023, Day Three
(For those not familiar with NaNoWriMo, it’s the National Novel Writing Month – in brief, slap 50,000+ words onto the screen as a “zeroth” draft of a novel. It’s not pretty, it’s not even a first...
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NaNoWriMo 2023, Day Four
(For those not familiar with NaNoWriMo, it’s the National Novel Writing Month – in brief, slap 50,000+ words onto the screen as a “zeroth” draft of a novel. It’s not pretty, it’s not even a first...
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