For a while I thought it was love, but in the end I see it for what it really was: an extended infatuation. Not that it's entirely over. I still cling to the faint hope that we can find our way back to the way it used to be. But in my heart, I know it's time [...]
Month: May 2014
Just Call it Living
It wasn't my idea to not school our kids. When it came time to enrol Iris in kindergarten, Sheila simply couldn't do it. She checked out all of the local schools, but homeschooling seemed right to her. I was Sheila's sounding board, but I was too buried in "The Machine" to understand the shape of an average [...]
Dancing with Capitalism
What do I do when my book is ready? When I finally accept that it is what it is, and prepare to release my first story for public consumption...? I am willing to sign the right deal with the right publisher (whatever that means -- I'm still trying to figure out what either of those things look like), but [...]