Writing Organization: Early Days with Reminders

One of the drawbacks of how my brain functions is that complex organizational schemes only last for a short period of time, generally. Some things remain relatively intact—my use of the 8 ½” x 11” Moleskine weekly planner, for one, … Continue reading...

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Jul 15, 2024
State of the Horses, July 2024

  There’s been a lot of quiet progress on the equine front. Mocha and Marker moved to summer pasture in May. Mocha immediately began establishing her rule not just over Marker but the neighboring gelding, Blue. In past years, when … Continue reading...

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Jul 07, 2024
Writing Process–Scene Matrix for The Cost of Power

Over the past few days I’ve been working my way through nearly a thousand pages of manuscript to whip The Cost of Power into some sort of continuity shape. After running all three books through a line edit, my next … Continue reading →

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Jun 16, 2024
Reorganizing the office

It’s amazing how inspired I can get from reorganizing my office. Starting the process always begins with me reaching a point of frustration, because whatever structure I have been using suddenly just doesn’t work. Brain fog tiptoes in and I … Continu...

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Jun 14, 2024
Well, I’m back

Image–roses at Arlington, Oregon, taken by Joyce Reynolds-Ward Well, I’m back. I didn’t expect to be away from writing a blog post for so long, but I’ve had my head down writing madly so I could finish The Cost of … Continue reading →

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Jun 13, 2024
Marker at six months together

This horse. This mystery of a horse. Late winter and early spring have been a bit of a challenge because Mr. Boi is acting in a studly manner when he’s in turnout with the herd, and he’s been dropping his … Continue reading →

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Mar 13, 2024
And…still dealing with the slump

Well, I got all ambitious and…nope, it’s not gonna work for being aggressive about blogging. The first two months of 2024 have been somewhat of a coming to terms with myself about writing, letting go of ambitions, and accepting the … Continue reading...

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Feb 24, 2024
Information doesn’t necessarily want to be free

Note: I should have probably posted this two weeks ago, but I was still working things out when it came to Substack alternatives. I may still have more to do, but…here we are, the promised response to Yann LeCun’s December … Continue reading →

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Jan 26, 2024
Just another random post–digging out of a slump

Yeah, yeah, I know, this doesn’t fit the current fashion to have your blog posts all neatly organized and corralled because I’m drafting this just before posting, and it’s not on the list of things to post. And I am … Continue reading →

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Jan 23, 2024
Yay! I think things are resolved…and DUCKS!

This picture of mallard ducks in a snow-covered wheat stubblefield just amazes me. They moved in when subzero temperatures hit, creating these nests in the snow. The picture really doesn’t do it justice because I took it on the first … Continue readi...

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Jan 19, 2024