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Apr 20, 2022

The business of rejections

I decided to write about some numbers about receiving rejections after I saw this tweet: Writers don’t share every rejection, only the acceptances, so I expect most of us probably have very skewed ideas about each other’s levels of success. - Jonathan Louis Duckworth (@Joduckwo) April 6, 2022 I don’t…

Writing Life

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The business of rejections
The business of rejections
Writing Life

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Aug 6, 2021

Ecce lignum crucis in quo salus mundi pependit

We went to Massachusetts at the end of July for the first long trip since the pandemic started. It was for a memorial for my wife’s mother who had died of Covid-19 in May 2020 at age 89. She caught the disease in a New Jersey nursing home, and by…

Covid 19

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Ecce lignum crucis in quo salus mundi pependit
Ecce lignum crucis in quo salus mundi pependit
Covid 19

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Jan 16, 2021

Links for 15 January 2021

Some items around the web I found intriguing Like most people, I like roaming around the web looking for cool things, and sometimes get the feeling that I’ve run across something worth bookmarking, something I want to mull over in the future. …

Video

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Links for 15 January 2021
Links for 15 January 2021
Video

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Dec 31, 2020

Twitter2020

I put together a Twitter-oriented blog post to help see 2020 out the door. January February

Twitter

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Twitter2020
Twitter2020
Twitter

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Twitter2020

I put together a Twitter-oriented blog post to help see 2020 out the door.

Not your average year, all in all

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Dec 14, 2020

Academic titles of address

On whether all doctorate holders should be called doctor There is a controversy out just now about whether holders of doctoral degrees other than medical doctors ought to use the title of Doctor before their names. I have some thoughts on the subject as a PhD holder in Physics. When…

Society

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Academic titles of address
Academic titles of address
Society

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May 15, 2020

Tired

I read a piece today about how prolonged stress can lead to persistent fatigue in a person who might be at a loss as to an obvious cause, and I’m thinking that that is what’s going on with me now. The worst comes at the end of what seems like…

Health

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Tired
Tired
Health

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Apr 18, 2020

Sixty

I like saying “I’m entering my seventh decade” today. It’s completely factual, because of the way we count things starting with one, and at the same time it sounds more weighty. The first decade was childhood and grade school. The second decade was high school and college in Illinois. The…

Aging

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Sixty
Sixty
Aging

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Apr 17, 2020

Time capsule

Here is a time capsule from the Covid-19 plague year for future readers who might be interested in what it was like around these times. The cold rain has come back, comfort to those who worry about drought, but making it difficult to go outside to take in a little…

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Time capsule
Time capsule

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Mar 1, 2020

Five cars

Last week we picked up our fifth car this month, a white Nissan Versa. It’s a little snug but will be fine just for getting around. We have this because car number four, a Nissan Altima, is in the body shop to repair a scrape it acquired a few hours…

Life

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Five cars
Five cars
Life

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Software engineer by day, writer by night

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