A new dad with a blog is a dangerous thing
So … this weekend Mary gave birth to our first child, a beautiful baby girl named Hannah. It's been a crazy few days. Not much sleep, a lot of diapers, and plenty of new experiences. We were admitted to the hospital Saturday night, Hannah was delivered Sunday morning, we were discharged Tuesday, and are just now finishing our first 48 hours in our own home (and it feels fabulous!). So! The exciting part … Pictures! I think most of these are pretty self-explanatory. But the view of Tacoma is from our window in the post-partum room (we faced the other Read more…
About that Beautyman short story …
About two months ago I posted about a short story I’d finished in my mystery series. I still like it, but I think I’m going to hold off publishing it. Why? Because I think it’s better as a novel. A member of my writing group made a suggestion, and it really got me thinking. I think I like it a lot better as a full-length novel than as a 30 page short story. Unfortunately, that means it’s going to take longer to come out. I’m working hard on my sci-fi novel–it’s already 56,000 words, about as long as The Saints Read more…
Kindle highlights
There's a feature on the Kindle that I rarely use: highlighting lines of text so you can find them later. I can count only a few times I've found this to be helpful. But! As an author, it turns out that it can be enormously encouraging. The Little Book of Gold, my fundraising guide for small nonprofits, has spent almost four months on the Kindle best-selling list for nonprofits. Crazy! One of the features of Amazon is that they will show you commonly highlighted passages in a book. That means that I (and anyone else) can see what people find Read more…
Some belated pictures from my trip to DC
It’s been almost two full weeks since my trip to DC. I thought I should share some of the more interesting pictures from the trip. Here is the Washington Monument, reflected in the (under construction) Reflecting Pool. This is from the steps of the Supreme Court looking back at the Capitol and all the protestors and media out front. It was a real circus. I have visited Arlington National Cemetery twice now. I find it a truly solemn place. Here is the door of the USS Maine memorial. And the rows of tombstones under the cherry blossoms. And just for Read more…
Atom is a super Responsive theme
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The future is here.
Watch these three videos. Between them, they’ll take 8 minutes of your time. It’s a good reminder that if the world looks like this in 2012 … things are going to be remade again and again in the next few decages. This warehouse robot company was just bought by Amazon. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs?wmode=transparent] This Google car can drive itself. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE?wmode=transparent] This tiny robot can jump 30 feet. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo?wmode=transparent]
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