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  • Daily Drawing 2017: Halfway!

    I passed the halfway mark of my daily drawing and wanted to do a bit of a look back at the second quarter.

  • Angle of Repose

    At its heart, it's a novel about marriage and how disappointment, failure, and change are handled over the years.

  • Quiet risks

    Some thoughts on work and this moment in time, where I'm trying to figure out the next step.

  • Little Dorrit

    The class situations that are such a large part of the Dickens world are also interesting, especially since I think we do much the same thing in the US right now, just in much more subtle ways.

  • On the mat

    Moving on my mat is what's keeping me sane right now.

  • What It Is

    It's official, I really love the writing of Lynda Barry.

  • Thoughts on making

    Part of the goal is to wake me up to the world around me, get me noticing what's around me and happening, so that I can then use that to think about writing and what I want to write about.

  • Maddaddam

    While contemplating those questions are worthwhile, the story itself didn't grab me as much. But I do like things to be a bit more tidy in novels and this book definitely wraps up the story in a way where I didn't feel I was left hanging.

  • Syllabus

    A book about drawing, the mind, writing, and thinking.

  • The Year of the Flood

    I absolutely loved this mixing of things, the way in which we learned the philosophy of the Gardeners and how that time served both of the main characters after everything changes. It's a great story.

  • No Known Grave

    I finished the Tom Tyler series by Maureen Jennings about a week ago (forgive me, I've been redesigning, so posting has been slow). It's much better than the second book, but the first book is the real star of this series.

  • Freshening up

    A few weeks ago as I was trying to fall asleep I got an idea for a redesign of this site. And I got excited about it. I promptly fell asleep and then woke up and was <em>still</em> excited.

  • Housekeeping

    And, as was the case with <em>Gilead</em>, Robinson's writing blows me away.

  • Daily Drawing 2017: A quarter of the way in

    On January 1, 2017 I started the first month of prompts using the first set of materials, watercolor brush markers. Yesterday I finished the third month of daily prompts and materials, drawing with white, gold, and silver pens on black paper.

  • Freeing

    Doing more to meet people who have nothing to do with tech has been hard, but so good.