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(Monday, 2/13/2017) Here I sit on a train, headed to New York City. I'm wearing headphones to drown out the sounds of the train and the people around me. I'm writing on my phone so I shouldn't be distracted,

When browsing Steem, I regularly come across the congenital whingers who lament that they have not yet had even a solitary thousand dollar payday. Neither have I, as yet. To those who are regularly &

I have been on and off the job market for the past ten or eleven years. After spending five-plus years as a full-time employee of Medidata Solutions, I have been doing one consulting job after the other.

My appreciation of Markdown began when I created my account here at Steemit. I have been using it to write articles in Scrivener for publication here at Steemit, but this isn’t my only blog. I have several

What is Agile? If you are not involved in software development, you might not be aware of the concept of agile development. The idea is that you track your project by tasks. Then each day, the team gathers

I know the title sounds like something out of Conspiracy Central, but this is a conversation we need to have sooner rather than later. Not because I think that technology is actively “out to get us” but

At the end of December, I signed up for a long list of courses from Udemy.com because they were offering their usually $200 courses for $10. I signed up for web design courses, writing courses, and then

I haven't been around in a while. In case you actually noticed and/or are wondering where I've been, I started a new job at the end of November and fell into a deep, dark hole. I've been commuting to the

When I was a child, we lived in the same small city where my mother was born and raised. Mom’s father was from Kingston, but her mother was born just outside of Port Jervis, in the town of Greenville.

Friday, November 10, 1972 Where did it begin? All these years later, I can close my eyes and see the scene just as it was. Lily and I were doing our homework in the basement. Finished basements were all

Life is strange, isn’t it? Monday I was feeling so down that I basically spent the day sitting on the couch, binge watching Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. I spent almost as much time dozing as

November is here and with it the monumental task of the NaNoWriMo participant: Write a 50,000 word novel by midnight on November 30th! That breaks down to 1,666 words per day! These brave/foolish souls

So, where have I been lately? Trying to get ready for NaNoWriMo (for details of what that means, take a look at this post that I did a week or so ago, Do you NaNo?. After all the plotting, outlining, and

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Twenty-two years ago I wrote a bunch of games for Windows 3.1; games that you might have found at Electronics Boutique or KMart. The games did pretty well but times change. Compared to today’s games, they

Margaret and her brother, Simon, sat on the front porch of the farmhouse where Margaret lived with her husband and children. Croplands stretched in every direction as far as the eye could see. Tall corn

It is getting closer to November, and you know what that means… You don’t? My friend @merej99 knows! She has already talked about it in her post, Calling on the Community. Help determine my NaNoWriMo novel!

Counting my new iPhone 7 Plus, I have had four iPhones over the years. I had an iPhone 4, 5, 6, and now the 7 Plus. I know that iPhones are expensive, and that they are not as cool to the average computer