Life Philosophies for Aging Software Developers
While browsing thru various newsletters that had been piling up in my inbox lately I came across two articles that had similar themes and were written by people in my age group, more or less. Notice...
Category: About Me
About “Beach Glass”
Beach Glass is prose-poetry that came to me as indicated, on a trip to the beach with Fran. The actual beach was Robinson Beach on the west side of Whidbey Island, instead of Holmes Harbor facing...
Beach Glass
F:”What happens next?” J:”I don’t know. Lets wait until Kathy gets home and make a plan” F:”Where’s my getup and go?” J:”I think you have it. You just have to use it.” (grunt, then silent pause.)...
The Tesseract of Life Connects the Great with the merely mortal
Susan Wingate is an esteemed author of “Christian Fantasy” and other fiction derivatives. I met her briefly when she was speaking at the 2014 Whidbey Island Writers Conference. She impressed me there as someone who has...
The Most Terrifying Thought. (Part 1)
Recently, Kathy has asked or 85 year old mother, Fran, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a couple of questions about her past. Did she remember food rationing during the war years? Where did certain people...
Reading…
A Story Recently, I’ve been reading Persun’s Cathedral of Dreams. Residents bask in blissful, meaningless monotony. Outsiders strive thru hard, desperate, emotional days. Some want out from within. Others want in from without. There is a...
What I’m Reading Right Now…
I’m concurrently reading three different books right now: 1. Encore by May Sarton, a journal she kept in her 80s (softbound) 2. Of City and Stars / The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clark –...