Guest Blogger: My Cat Writes on Personal Productivity

I don’t know exactly how he found out. My entire life has been a grand redirection campaign with really only one goal: Get them to do what I want so that I can do what I want.
I see how they treat the dog, how they make him do things. SPEAK. SIT. ROLL OVER. COME. STAY. [...]

To The Blogoshpere And Beyond

Back in late September, Ted Olson posted an article he entitled The Death of Blogs. He cited a Gartner estimate that there would be, by mid-2007, two hundred million ex-bloggers. Since there are only an estimated one hundred million bloggers still active, the math is easy enough to do: Blogging is on the decline.
On the [...]

Ten Things I Like About Blogging

I posted yesterday on things I hated about blogging. Today I’ll post on things I like about this medium.
What’s interesting is that many items on the list of positive things are almost direct opposites of the items on the list of negative things. I don’t know if that’s meaningful, yet, but just thought I’d mention [...]

Ten Things I Hate About Blogging

I’ve done some soul searching over the past couple of months inwardly debating this question: Should I or should I not close the blog?
So many decisions I’ve made in my life I’ve made with a pen in my hand. Dividing the paper in two, I labeled one side HATE and the other LIKE. (I even [...]

Complexity

One sentence is not enough.

Remembered From Last Night

Clouds scudded across the disk of the moon.

Prayer for the Week: December 16 - December 22

Dear Lord,
Fill the void that is in my heart.

I Smell a Trick

"Hold on," he said. "This is only a cheap gimmick!"

Only One Sentence

I’m thinking about only one-sentence journal entries.

A Proviso

I was quick to point out that I did not consider myself to be an expert.

Saying Less

There are times when I should say much less.

No Light Today

I had a longer post written for today, but it’s not going to see the light of day.

“Talking” on the Radio

I sat for an interview on the Ima G. Nation radio program yesterday. She asked me about many things, some of which will come out in the weeks to come. Here is just a portion of the transcript of that interview regarding questions about my blogging activities:
 Ima: You changed the name of your blog! I [...]

Entry for 3/29/07

If I may add one more a number of thing(s) to the comment I left on Dee’s post for today: The level of attention necessary to compose a blog entry (or any kind of writing, for that matter) crosses over into other disciplines. She asks if Christian bloggers are as disciplined in our Christian lives. [...]

Skin Changing

I’ve changed my blog template again, first time since late last summer. More than just the look and feel, I changed for technical reasons. There was a lack of certain kinds of functionality in my old template. (For whatever reason, it did not format ordered and unordered lists, or at least I couldn’t find a [...]

Best of ‘06? On to ‘07

Over the past five days I’ve posted what I thought were my best posts for the year 2006.
If you’ve been keeping up with this little retrospective, you might have been surprised that certain posts ended up in this list. “What’s so good about those?” you may ask.
Please remember, that I defined “best” as something that [...]

Best of 06 One

Number One was written originally as prose. I re-formatted it as a poem just to see if it can be done. I think it worked out fine, but then I’m a bit biased.
The original prose piece was written after my Dad’s surgery. I was quite busy with work, with family and volunteer activities at the [...]

Best of 06 Two

Number Two is one entry from the vacation series:
Resting
Thursday August 17th 2006, 5:18 pm
Filed under: Spirituality
I think walking is good exercise; a good walk is sometimes strenuous. Even so, I also think walking can also be very relaxing. We did a lot of walking while we were on vacation. I posted a picture,on Tuesday, of [...]

Best of 06 Three

Number Three is something I don’t talk much about.
I remember writing this very short and haunting post right after I was awakened early by a weird dream, the details of which I cannot now remember. I composed the post and promptly forgot about writing it. Some months later, while going through the archives looking for [...]

Best of 06 Four

Number Four didn’t even appear on my own blog, but I have in mind two posts that will spin off from this one, so I post it for the first time on the New Freedom Sanction. It originally appeared as an entry on Grace Notes.
Again, there is much about this post that I like. I [...]