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Fiction Writing Update, Thoughts on Motivation and Incentive
First-generation self-driving truck Two new fiction sales to announce: My story “The Equationist” will be published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, either in the Jan/Feb issue or possibly the Mar/Apr...
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My 2018 motto is “no rushing, no slacking.” I’m going full tortoise. Many of the problems I’ve created for myself in the past couple years have come from rushing around. I broke my foot trying to get...
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A Good Life Is Made of Small Things
My father-in-law is dying. He most likely has only weeks to live. As dying goes, he’s doing it really well, surrounded by loved ones, with good professional home-hospice care. He’s a renowned poet and...
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Plan Your Whole Life
Rock solid. It’s futile to plan your whole life. Nobody’s life goes according to plan. Q: How to make God laugh? A: Make a plan. But it’s also futile not to. I deleted a blog post yesterday. It was...
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How To Prevent Stress Spirals
Supercell by Kelly DeLay Rough week, in a first-world-problems sort of way. Upgraded my Macbook Pro to a 1T internal SSD. Restoring from my SuperDuper backup didn’t work, so I had to install macOs...
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How To Be Less Racist
In the United States and Europe, racists are coming out of the woodwork, freely expressing views that were considered taboo only a year ago. Concerns about terrorism and economic security (some valid,...
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New 6-Week Experiment: Living With a Disability
On the evening of Dec. 9th I stepped off my skateboard the wrong way and broke my foot (three fractured metatarsals — see above). Thinking it was just a bad sprain, I took a Lyft home and rested on...
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Five Things That Made My Life 10% Better (Each)
Our new puppy, a possible #6? We’ll see! I used to make myself miserable in ways that turned out to be easily fixable. Sometimes it took ten, twenty years to see the obvious and do something about it....
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Activity Audit – Where Does All The Time Go?
At some point everything drops … December and January brought more freelance coding and database work than expected, but now I’m in a quiet stretch. It’s given me the opportunity to experiment with my...
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A Few Things I’ve Learned in My Forties
Getting older doesn’t automatically make you wiser, but there’s more experience to draw on. One theory suggests that this is why we appear to think more slowly as we age–the dataset is bigger but the...
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Problem List and 30-Day No Worrying Experiment
No worries. Over the past couple months I’ve been maintaining two new lists: My problems. Things I’m looking forward to. I update both on a weekly basis, along with progress towards my current goals....
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Fiction Writing Update, Thoughts on Motivation and Incentive
First-generation self-driving truck Two new fiction sales to announce: My story “The Equationist” will be published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, either in the Jan/Feb issue or possibly the Mar/Apr...
View ArticleMy 2018 Motto
My 2018 motto is “no rushing, no slacking.” I’m going full tortoise. Many of the problems I’ve created for myself in the past couple years have come from rushing around. I broke my foot trying to get...
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A Good Life Is Made of Small Things
My father-in-law is dying. He most likely has only weeks to live. As dying goes, he’s doing it really well, surrounded by loved ones, with good professional home-hospice care. He’s a renowned poet and...
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Plan Your Whole Life
Rock solid. It’s futile to plan your whole life. Nobody’s life goes according to plan. Q: How to make God laugh? A: Make a plan. But it’s also futile not to. I deleted a blog post yesterday. It was...
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Revisiting Goals and Intentions, 10 Years Later
My original blog banner (photo by Stephanie Morgan) This year marks the ten-year anniversary of this blog (my first post was written in December of 2009). Zooming out, that decade comprises about a...
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Kindness and Free Will in an Uncaring Universe
Leia, looking toward the future, or possibly at a squirrel. (picture by my daughter on her iPad) One doesn’t have to look far to find overwhelming evidence that the universe is an uncaring place, and...
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Communicating with Your Unconscious Mind (a Two-Way Street)
Keep your eyes on the watch… During the most recent SFWA Nebulas Conference I had the opportunity to speak with author Lawrence Schoen about hypnosis. One of the conference events is something called...
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Imagining Best Case Scenarios
I’ve been experimenting with two complementary techniques for influencing the quality and direction of my life. In this post I’ll write about one of those methods: imagining and describing best case...
View ArticleHow and When to Use Negative Visualization
I don’t enjoy worrying or ruminating. Excessive rumination is linked to depression, a loss of hope, and a more negative interpretation of events and experiences. When I find myself obsessing on a...
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