Blogs tagged "writing"

This week has been marked particularly by fatigue. While not out of the ordinary for me, it's always frustrating to r...

Today's entry is dedicated to this month's IndieWeb Carnival, a project where independent websites write monthly blog...

It's been a good day so far, and for that I'm thankful. I would say that I've been focused on that constant internal ...

Welcome to the 271st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 270th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 269th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it...

Jatan at Journal J wrote a good blog post back in 2021 against using “bad links” in blog posts. What does he mean by ...

I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to an assignment. But that does not mean I was not coll...

Some fundamentals about how it works, and what to do when it doesn't

Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time

Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three.

Someday all of the posts to Once We Were Browncoats will get imported here as part of the ongoing blog restoration pr...

In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...

As I’d observed, more or less, in my adult function report for Disability Determination Services, whatever else might...

I had a short chat with my sister and mother, and as my mother finished braiding my hair, the conversation fell like ...

The satisfaction in self-destruction is what keeps me from getting out. Last night, right after I finished writing my...

Wow. It has been long, yet all it has been is a lot of ruminating, longing, yearning, guilting, depressing, daydreami...

How I fought my smartphone addiction In a poignant Gemini post, Kevin Boone wrote about his anxiety to go out of his ...

Capitalisme, IA et éducation Extrait de mon journal du 29 janvier, en lisant "Comprendre le pouvoir" de Chomsky. Le c...

Préface à « La déception informatique » Ce texte est la préface que j’ai écrite pour le livre « La déception informat...

"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.

I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they cou...

Note: this review contains spoilers.

Note: This review makes it easy to avoid spoilers.

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Its that time, friends! The festivities of July 2025 has come to an end. Its been a fantastic opportunity to host the...

0038: 5 ways to approach goal-setting0:00/632.0641×Episode details: A reading and discussion of this, from 2022 ↓5 wa...

0037: The wooden chair0:00/387.98933333333331×Episode details: Readings of two passages on the subject of wooden chai...

0036: Anecdote of Carlina0:00/265.813333333333331×Episode details: A reading of two short passages, one from The Art ...

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

an arc is an arc is an arc

what's on my mind this week

why is apple music the only sane library app

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...

For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent l...

Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in ear...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

Ah, Foundation. Along with Asimov’s robot-themed stories, the Foundation series vies for the title of Asimov’s most i...

Arguably, Jon Pertwee was instrumental in pioneering the Doctor Who audio drama format. Sure, Tom Baker had done The ...

After the first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles test-drove the concept, Big Finish would regularly ret...

The New York Post Metro secution RSS feed now includes California Post articles. This was not concerning until I saw ...

I prefer my steak well-done. Not everyone is the same. I share three personal steak-cooking disagreement anecdotes.

The February 2026 snow gets to one side of statues of Christopher Columbus and Robert F. Kennedy near Brooklyn Boroug...

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...

Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...

Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...