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Weekly Wrap-Up: March 12

March 12, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here. I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do is add [...]

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O, Canada!

March 1, 2010

If I weren’t an American, I’d want to be a Canadian. I used to think I’d want to be an Aussie, or a Kiwi. But the past fortnight has brought home to me just what wonderful neighbors we have to the north. I’ve been privileged to count Canadians among my friends for many years; I’m [...]

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Walt Disney World Follow-Up

February 16, 2010

This post started as a reply to comments on the preceding article, but I figured, why not make it a post in its own right? So here it is…

It’s been a great week, and Alison has been an absolute angel the entire time. Today, she and her parents woke early (after she slept in till [...]

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Weekly Word Count: February 12

February 11, 2010

What Is This?
Following the lead of my mentor, friend, and exemplar, Tami Moore, this is a weekly article to document progress in meeting my writing goals as described here.
I use an Excel spreadsheet to track all my work by category (blog post, copyediting work, creative writing) and item. So all I need to do is add up [...]

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Kinda Sorta AFK

January 24, 2010

 Monday morning, my wife Janet and I are flying from Rapid City to Santa Barbara, Calif., via Salt Lake City. From Santa Barbara, we’re driving north about 90 minutes to Los Osos (just north of San Luis Obispo), where we’ll spend the next two weeks. On Feb. 10, we fly from Santa Barbara to Orlando, [...]

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Goals for 2010

January 4, 2010

If you want to see how your goals for the new year should be framed to truly up the accountability ante, I strongly recommend this article at Tami Moore’s site. I’m not going to get into quite the detail that Tami does, but I do want to put something “out there” to make me accountable to [...]

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Where did the year go? A retrospective look at 2009

December 29, 2009

As I write this, I’m sitting at the breakfast bar in in our vaction house on Kaua’i, at about 9:30 in the morning on December 29. It struck me that there are but three days left in what so many are (incorrectly) labeling the last year of the first decade of the new millenium.1
I’m not [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Land of Aloha

December 25, 2009

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve opened your Christmas gifts already. So here’s a little lagniappe, if you will: a Merry Christmas article from the Aerie.
In addition, you probably found a couple extras in your feed reader this morning: Turns out my update to WordPress 2.9 was apparently not quite as trouble-free as I [...]

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Aloha From Kaua’i!

December 22, 2009

Christmas greetings from Kaua’i!   We had a fairly uneventful trip, considering it’s the height of Christmas travel season. We got up about 4am Monday morning, got to the airport right at 5:30 for our 6:30 flight to Minneapolis (MSP). The weather was foggy in Rapid City, so we had a [...]

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Giving More Than Thanks

November 25, 2009

Tomorrow, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. Originally a religious holiday, it has become much more secular over the past century or so. In doing so, however, it has also become, in my view, a much more revered holiday.1 Christmas has become way too commercial (the day before Halloween, I was in a home center and [...]

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