I wrote this up originally at the end of September. I couldn’t face trying to work on it, just no inspiration to finish it and explain. And now, we face true horror. What could be scarier than what is ahead of us? So, here it is incomplete and left as it is. I need to rethink what I am doing …
The Spirit of the Thing and does it Matter
When I was at CSU, in my photography class, we were doing a project of photograms, where one exposes photo paper with objects on it, to create images from the silhouettes and shadows. I was initially taken with a fellow student’s work, the image was layered and seemed to have a dragon head or something, I hardly recall now all …
Autism and Interviewing
Or To Disclose or Not To Disclose After speaking with someone about a recent interview, that I felt had been going well, up to the end, when it seemed to crash, we discussed a way to come at things differently. I am of an age that still does not know how to treat autism. When I was growing up, autism …
On Screen vs IRL photos
I have a show coming up in a couple of weeks. Or rather, I have a work that will be part of a juried show at the Middletown Art Center, opening August 2. The work I am exhibiting is one I really like. Except I had only ever seen it on a screen. The image is mostly neon lights from …
I have a lot to say and I’m not saying it
This is the hardest part for me. Stopping and sitting and starting. I have a list of subjects to write about and several draft posts, including the jeweler’s bench critique I have been avoiding for over a year. Almost as long as I’ve been unemployed, as it was the first thing I really did during my unemployment, spending what at …
Two-fer Review-fer
I have been reticent in my posting, instead of at least once a week, which was my stated goal at the beginning of the year. I am behind on my Book Corner page, updating it when I remember, which is usually two or three books after I have finished them, moving them from To Be Read directly to Finished Reading. …
Post Work
I still account the Post Office to have been one of the worst work experiences. Not the bottom, though aspects of it and some of the events there were pretty well the worst. When I first started, that first day, when we took our Oath to the Constitution of the United States, I was genuinely on board. I was so …
Working Title
In a past life, not the mystical kind, in the real kind, I was a bookseller. Before I worked on computers, I helped to sell books. From January 2001 until November 2006, I live some of my best vocational life. I worked for, at the time, the book selling chain, Barnes & Noble (not Barnes and Nobles). It was about …
Night Circus Book Review
I did not read Night Circus until just recently (January/February 2024). I actually read it as I read someone on Tor.com (now Reactormag.com) write about how they had also not read it (sadly, I cannot seem to find the article that I read, as the changeover from Tor to Reactor is still a little chaos, it seems). They finally picked …
Neurodivergence and “Just Do It”
Several years ago, when I still read Reddit regularly, I was in r/photography. I read a post asking how one went out and took photos. The poster noted that many people were able to get out and take photos and yet they weren’t. The trite answer was, just do it. Just go out and take the photos. Even at that …
