Category Archives for Rambles

Happy Birthday Hermann Hesse

I know it might be silly to acknowledge the birthday of a dead person, but how can I not acknowledge the man that wrote: “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of […]

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New Foible Found

I’m amazed that as neurotic as I am I still find annoying foibles about myself. After all of these years I thought I would’ve figured them all out. Now, I understand that we can all develop new annoying ticks and habits as we stumble through life, but this one I just realized is not a […]

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Focus

Since my two month hiatus from my novel it has become necessary for me to reread everything I’ve written so far in order to get reacquainted with the story and characters. At the sacrifice of trees, I decided to read it in hard copy format. So I printed it out last week, stuck it in an […]

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Soapy Memories

You know how sometimes the smallest seemingly most insignificant thing can unlock memories you even forgot were there? Well something like that happened to me today but not nearly on a scale as grand as I’ve laid out. It all started with soap. First a little background. I don’t consider soap to be a high […]

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