There’s something very weird about expecting turnkey results from technology and having it back out on you. Back in 1995, my high school friends and I saw “The Net” when it first came out. The internet was just a vague…
Category: A Day in the Life
The Week That Was (or: How are We in Middle March?)
It’s been a bit of a weird week. It seems a lot of people are discombobulated. In flux. It’s hard to say how much of that revolves around the fact that my life is thoroughly immersed in people who rely…
A New Hope
Two days ago, I was falling apart. Now I’m putting it all back together. In fact, I started writing a post called “Disintegration” around this time on 3 March. All I could get through was a single line. It read:…
Wildly Content
Waking up to a snowstorm, with a tournament ahead and yesterday’s great news behind, I find myself to be wildly content. It may seem like a strange state of being, to feel such a passionate sense of a relatively dispassionate…
American Dream On Advances in ABNA!
About an hour ago, it was announced that American Dream On had bested 80% of its competition in the General Fiction category of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and has moved on to the second round. Given that was based…
A Thousand Words
It’s not exactly people bringing down the statue of Saddam Hussein, but this kind of image is being levied to the American people as a sign of the grand liberation they’re bringing to a backwards and otherwise hopeless land in…
Thirty
I didn’t think I’d make it to thirty. For a long time, I felt fairly confident about that. Over the weekend, I proved myself wrong. And I’m pretty happy about that. Since the Princeton tournament ran till 1:30 in the…
Snow Day – the Rest of the Story (or: Chronicle of a Fort Foretold)
Yesterday was one of the best days in a good long while. It snowed all day, with total fall probably somewhere over a foot, tacked onto the 4-6 unmelted inches from the storm over the weekend. I came in and…
Snow Days (or: Why New Jersey Isn’t So Bad)
We are living right now under a swirling Nor’easter that reminds me why Emily was able to convince me to move back to the East Coast. My love for snow simply can’t be underestimated. Really can’t. I am just walking…
Inspiration
Rarely do I feel as inspired in my life as when I’m just starting out on a car trip (of almost any length), looking forward to where I’m going, with music blasting. Life is just good under those conditions, but…