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Blog postWalker almost fixed a lawnmower today.
When the lawnmower threw a belt about half an hour before I had to log on to work, Walker took it on himself up disassemble the deck, battery casing, and powertrain. He did a really good job at it and only needed Alli’s help for figuring out which wheels the drive belt should wrap around in which order.
Unfortunately, somewhere along the line something got disconnected or loosened and now the lawnmower won’t start. It’s probably a tension -
Blog postI squealed like a tween at a Four Town concert when I heard John Siracusa announce that he had quit his job.
I’ve been an avid ATP listener for several years now, and fully admit to being a John fanboy, as much as Marco is delightful and I used to live fairly near Casey (don’t be creepy) and shared a lot of his opinions. Congratulations to John for taking such a big step in his career.
Following the bombshell announcement on ATP, I went to read John’s blog post and listen to h -
Blog postI did it again: Started a thing, felt like it was going really well, then lost focus and didn’t keep up for a second week.
Let’s get back on track today.
I need to make some calls on Monday.
First and most important I need to schedule my next COVID booster. As part of the elite club of J&J recipients who are now under-protected, I qualify for a second booster shot.
And immediately after typing that I realized that, rather than putting it off to tomorrow, I -
Blog postI’m trying to break a cycle.
It goes something like this:
I think something is really cool.I start to get into the thing.I try to share the thing with other people, because it’s so damn cool.I get anxious because others aren’t into the thing as much as I am.I make another attempt to share, maybe in person and maybe as YouTube streams or blogs.I get really awkward.I either stop doing the thing or awkwardly do it in private, not really talking much. This applies to watching movi -
Blog postOn this day, I froze.
Not quite to death, but it was a close thing.
Walker’s second rugby game took place beneath a gray sky and amid wind gusts which repeatedly drove the snowfall horizontal. We bundled up in many a layer, and still my toes were numb for some twenty minutes after we got in the car.
And yet, I survived.
Autoaccountabilabuddy Health: I successfully didn’t freeze to death.Writing: No writing, but did a lot of video editing.Mindset: Content. Your Dail -
Blog postA faithful accounting of my conversation with GG this evening:
“I gotta let you know that he and I, we never fought. Not a once. And I tell everybody that I ain’t got nothin but good memories with my Jimmy. We had good times together. There was times we disagreed, and I know I done tried his patience a time or two, but we always worked it out. We always said that you gotta give and forgive. When you love somebody and when you spend so many years with somebody, you learn a lot about th -
Blog postFour hours, and then some.
That’s how long it took for Walker to do his math, with me sitting beside him the whole time.
It’s been a challenge getting Walker back on track after Papap’s heart attack. The stress of that event and the subsequent weeks of rapid decline coincided with a growth spurt which has left Walker with the mind of a tween whose ADHD meds are struggling to keep pace with the latest surge of testosterone and a body which is growing longer every day. He flops -
Blog postI worry about money.
This is nothing new. I worried about money when my wife and I were both working full time jobs. That’s how I saved up enough for a downpayment on a (foreclosure and needing work) house in less than two years. It’s how I managed to keep us afloat when we dropped down to one salary. It’s how I’ve helped multiple households of friends arrange budgets and get out of debt.
There’s nothing wrong with being thrifty, but what I’ve got to learn is to stop /worrying -
Blog postThis is me trying to get back into the habit of writing every day.
I wrote daily for several years. 1000 words. Every damn day. If I couldn’t get them out before work in the morning I would stay up late or write during dinner.
I have to admit that a lot of that writing was a form of therapy. I was deeply unhappy at work and my then wife and I were slowly discovering that we liked doing different things. Not a bad thing in a marriage. Having different things to talk about and s -
Blog postInspired by many an adventure novel, globe trotting films, and a mural I saw while visiting Paris in 2010, The Staff of Moses was the first novel I completed. I’ve since revised it several times and, as of 2022, I am releasing it for free on my website. If you’d like to read the novel in a more convenient format, you may purchase it on Kindle.
Teaser Oliver Lucas is a professional tomb robber, though he prefers to think of himself as an adventure photographer and gentleman relic hunte -
Blog posthttps://youtu.be/UymhJVspJjk It’s been thirteen years since I lived in Maine, and twenty one years since I lived there. (Can we take just a moment to appreciate that I can say, with a straight face, that something happened twenty years ago and I have clear memories of it).
The Drive
We left Maryland early on Saturday morning, with the goal of making it to a Cracker Barrel outside of Albany, New York before nightfall. The drive went remarkably well and Alli was still fee -
Blog postWe like kayaking, but since installing the wheelchair ramps it’s been difficult to store them close to the house. It’s also a pain to carry them so far, especially since Walker’s kayak doesn’t have convenient grips for carrying it single handed.
So we needed a solution that would put the kayaks closer to the water, but be safer than laying them on the concrete or lashing them to the dock.
Oh… and now that life has slowed down enough for me to edit video, we’ll be posting at le -
Blog post“I realized today why I kept having panic attacks last week,” she said, leaning back in her chair and setting her headphones on the desk.
Being an utterly rational person in complete control of his emotions, like all Real American Men who don’t need “feelings” or medication, he downed a shot of whiskey and took a deep drag from a CBD vape flavored with testosterone and diesel fuel. Fixing her with a condescending eye, he growled, “What exactly upset your delicate womanly nature, littl -
Blog postEXTERIOR: EAST BALTIMORE
The sun is just setting over the swamp. Rain pours down. An angry old woman in a gray cloak, an excitable young pugilist with a fancy haircut, and a dimwitted male cheerleader rush down the garden steps and come to a sudden halt.
A shadow darts across the screen. Is it a monster? A bird? A startled rabbit?
ABBIGAIL shouts an alarm and draws the sword she carries beneath her tattered cloak.
ABBIGAIL: “Be ready to fight. There are mutants ne -
Blog postOne of the most exciting parts about home schooling is having the flexibility to try different classes and learning styles. When Walker was struggling with math a couple months ago, we switched him to a new learning program and it has done wonders for both his confidence and grasp of math concepts. Ellie has been exploring the idea of launching a webcomic or writing a novel, so we have been trying to support her in those goals, even as we sign her up for classes in different art styles.
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Blog postLast summer Walker and one of his buddies helped me install a new nesting platform at the end of the dock. We used a large, plastic and metal shipping pallet, braced with 2x4s and secured with long screws and rope.
All fall and winter the new platform sat empty, waiting for a new nesting season to come around. Winds gusted through the pallet. Waves battered the piling. Cold gripped the plastic and wood and metal, causing them to creak and groan as they contracted at different rates. < -
Blog postA couple weeks back I found a mysterious device while cleaning out the basement: A black pistol grip with a red plastic barrel fused to a full-hand trigger.
I found it on Rich’s workbench, amid a pile of electric drills, flashlights, and hammers. It immediately jogged my memory, but I couldn’t quite remember why. Being there in a mess of tools, my mind went to grease gun… low temperature hot glue gun… maybe a broken soldering gun?
I set it aside and forgot about it.
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Blog postIt’s been a helluva month.
We’ve spent the last few weeks closing up business in Virginia. Packing, cleaning, doing what we could to see friends and family, within reason given the ongoing pandemic and a few spats which emerged when I announced that I was heading north. The whole process was complicated by my car accident, which has left the truck sitting in a repair lot for a month
We’re trying hard to help the kids feel settled, even as we try to find our pace with the new n -
Blog postWe all breathe.
From our first incoherent cry to our last rasping breath, we breathe over twenty thousand times each day.
We breathe so often that we take it for granted, until the moments when our breath is taken away.
I thought I knew what it was to have my breath taken away. By love. By art. By exercise. But everything changed this year.
In June of 2020, Allison and I were visiting a friend on the Pennsylvania border when her mother invited her to a surprise -
Blog postIt’s been a few months since we used The Mothership because it’s so darn cold up in Maryland, but with the cold beginning to break and Richard’s condition worsening, we decided to do a quarantine and bring the kids up for a visit before things get too bad.
This morning I was laying in back of the camper, cocooned in my sleeping bag and debating whether was worth going into the house to pee and have coffee and write a little before everyone woke up, or if I should just burrow back into -
Blog postWe recently spent two days at Douglas Headwaters Dam in Tennessee. I took several great photos, but the highlight of the visit was Walker getting to spend hours upon hours playing in the mud. Douglas Lake is part of the Tennessee Valley Authority flood control network. Nestled among the western fringes of the Great Smokey… Continue reading The Red Mud →
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Blog postAlong the same road where I photographed the power lines and spiderwebs, Walker pointed out a spot where a large limb (or small tree) has been cut down after growing around a line. The tree lay in a ditch, surrounded by poison ivy, so photographing it was a challenge. I ended up aligning the camera… Continue reading Captive Line →
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Blog postThere’s nothing like a blank and white photo to really how off the shape and texture of a subject. Sure, color can be beautiful, but when you’re looking to really focus on shape, it’s black and white that forces you to really focus. And sometimes you take a color photo and the universe decrees that… Continue reading Dark Lines of Power →
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Blog postThree weeks ago I left Maryland on a family vacation which would take us to West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. I spent half an hour before we left Maryland wandering the street, taking photos of spider webs and trees weighed down by a heavy mist that verged on rain. That photo expedition is probably… Continue reading The Watery Orbs of Mars →
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Blog postLast weekend we took the kids into the woods to spend time with their great-grandparents and get away from technology for a little while. You can read more about that adventure over at In Such Times. While playing in the river, Walker found a rock which, when thrown in the way of eleven year olds… Continue reading River Rock Rust Rainbow →
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Blog postA few weeks ago, Alli’s mother requested that I try making some small vases which she could use for making small flower arrangements. Always happy to accept a pottery challenge, I sat down and threw a dozen little vases. For the most part, it went well. There were a few little vases that got all… Continue reading dripping microvases →
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Blog postThe other night I stepped out to the dock to put away some paddles that the boys had forgotten in their enthusiasm to go to dinner with Walker’s dad… and thirty seconds later came running back into the house because I had to try and get a shot of the moon rising over the bay.… Continue reading Shooting the Moon →
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The Staff of Moses (Oliver Lucas Adventures Book 1)
Dec 11, 2013
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Andrew Linke
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The Eye of Odin (Oliver Lucas Adventures Book 2)
Nov 14, 2013
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