Generally, I embrace change. I feel like some situations cause me to rise to the challenge and make me a better person. However, getting a new toaster might not be one of those times. We needed to make this change. I will 100 percent concede that. But I might have more than a few issues […]
My career as a full-time journalist ended almost 22 years ago. I last wrote something for a newspaper about 7 years ago. My identity is no longer wrapped up in that profession. I haven’t felt that way for a long time. However, I am immensely grateful especially right now for one of the lessons I […]
One of my favorite things about living in a small town like Hanover is making fun of people who freak out about every little thing. This mainly takes the form of talking about safely walking through town at night as a miracle even though it is a common occurrence. (I know bad things can and […]
I don’t really know why I decided to start “creating content” around the games I play on Football Manager. I think it had to do with a lot of the things I get involved with – I saw someone else doing it and figured I could do it too. I have no illusions about this […]
I could not figure out today’s Wordle puzzle. And that’s OK. I didn’t share that one to the thread I use for my results because I don’t really need to share my failures. (I have a single Facebook thread for Wordle instead of making a new one every day.) But I feel like maybe I […]
My reading journey for 2022 has started a little slower than some other years. I am only two books in with the third one not too far away from the end. I kept meaning to blog about the first two books, but kept putting it off. Knocking this post out was part of the impetus […]
I made a private promise that I would blog every day in March. I didn’t share this with anyone because I know myself and had low expectations. But here is my first post of March explaining why I didn’t post on the 1st of March. The problems started a while back. We randomly lost Internet […]
Wrapping up the year in reading with the final 6 of the 31 books I read this year. The Immortalists, Chloe BenjaminI am a sucker for a good plot device and Chloe Benjamin nails it with her examination of four siblings from New York. As youngsters, they visit a woman who claims she can tell […]
Let’s see who my team will be in my first Football Manager 2022 save.
The moniker “Generation X” can carry some weighty expectations. Latchkey kids, fighting between generations, the ability to program both a VCR and a cell phone. Those things all define my generation. But at one point, Generation X only referred to a book by a first-time author from Canada. I recently re-read Douglas Coupland’s influential novel, […]