A New Year

January 2, 2010

Chatting with friends and watching the news, it seems many people are glad to see 2009 go. I spent the first half of the year dealing with a health issue that’s bothered me since 2004. I watched the calendar approach May 26 (when I turned 40) and spent too much time  thinking about the writing [...]

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White Christmas

December 26, 2009

A white Christmas in north Texas? Yes, it actually happened! My wife and I were iced in at my mom’s apartment on Christmas Eve; it was one of the best holidays ever! (Check out The Juggling Writer blog for a blog post about the gift of books.) I hope everybody’s been having a great holiday [...]

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The Layoff

December 26, 2009

On the Thursday before Christmas, I was laid off from the job I’ve had for the last five years. The group I was in dodged all previous rounds of layoffs, but that afternoon, they reduced the group I was in [Technical Publications] in half. I kind of saw this coming; in fact, I helped myself [...]

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Been Sick

December 6, 2009

I went to Oregon the week before Thanksgiving. I think I was the only person on the plane ride back who was not sick! That didn’t last very long. Leading up to Thanksgiving, I had a sore throat and some other not-so-fun stuff going on. The Sunday after Thanksgiving, I started running a fever…it finally [...]

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Been Awhile…

November 28, 2009

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated my Web site. I’ve been using WordPress for The Juggling Writer blog, and I’ve decided to use it for the rest of my site. My goal is to get the new look (right now, things are set up for the WordPress default look) and add pages to the site [...]

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