Category Archives: Thoughts on writing
Tik Tok, Tik Tok – No One At Rest
This is what you see when you go to TikTok. Everything set in motion, no rest, no peace, just constant and mindless movement. There’s a Yoga dude holding a position in one frame. My screen capture, though, caught him between … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, video
Tagged advertising, gif, no peace, no rest, the commercial internet, TikTok
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The True Believer
The story goes of a town facing a flood. Rain had been falling for two weeks and a dam was about to burst. A mandatory evacuation order went out for everybody to leave. One man remained. He was a true … Continue reading
Posted in non-fiction writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized
Tagged belief, divinity, god, help, religion
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Those Weird, Crazy, Angry People on Facebook — Among Other Sites
I’ve given up for the most part on trying to help people with questions on Facebook and most of the other discussion sites I have participated in. The only forums that work are those where every question and answer is … Continue reading
Posted in non-fiction writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized
Tagged prodigy, the internet, the web, trolls, usenet
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Conceptual Art is Still With Us!
You didn’t miss it! That Thing From The Nineties is still here, still throwing out nonsense to justify something easy to make. In the Belgian city of Ghent this month, conceptual artist Kris Martin is having a retrospective entitled Exit. … Continue reading
Posted in art, editing writing, non-fiction writing, organizing writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, video
Tagged art, belgian, conceptual art, kris martin, movies, the shining
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Explaining The World
Why do terrible things happen to the good and innocent? In a godless world there is no reason. In a Judeo-Christian world there may be a reason but you won’t like it. A godless world presents inevitable misfortune as much … Continue reading
Posted in editing writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized
Tagged A.E. Housman, ale, Christianity, god, jewish, jews, Kafka, milton, presbyterian, religion, The Bible, world view
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We’ll Meet Again
I’m enjoying watching Picard on CBS All Access, the latest installment in the decades old Star Trek franchise. Episode Seven hit me very hard as it featured old friends reunited in a warm, sunny place of great beauty and peace. … Continue reading
Posted in music, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, Writing by others
Tagged afterlife, god, heaven, hope, loved ones, music, parents, peace, sunny day, the afterlife, vera lynn, we'll meet again
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We Are All Locked in The Greenhouse
This sign used to hang in one of the many greenhouses on the U.C. Davis campus. I like its chatty, humorous tone, something rarely seen when needing help. It also reminds me of Kafka’s The Castle, in which a driven … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, editing writing, fiction, organizing writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, Writing by others
Tagged German, internet archive, Kafka, Max Brod, Muirs, novel, shocked books, The Castle, translators, writing
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The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
The only poem Lewis Carrol published that had an unhappy ending. Make no mistake, this is a happy and sometime joyous poems that revels in the English language. Some say this is the most extended example of nonsense poetry in … Continue reading
The Pulitzer Prize And The State of Jefferson
Winning the Pulitzer was traditionally a career making event for a newspaper reporter. And a real point of pride for the newspaper that employed the writer. It used to be simple, you won the Pulitzer. There were four original awards … Continue reading
Posted in editing writing, non-fiction writing, Stanton Delaplane, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, Writing by others, Writing tips
Tagged 1941, 1942, columbia school of journalism, humboldt county, jackson county, klamath county, lake county, northern california, oregon, siskiyou county, Stanton Delaplane, state of jefferson, the san francisco chronicle, trinity county
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Deeper Into SEO
Search engine optimization means producing high ranking web pages. Quality content isn’t enough, that content must employ a variety of techniques to get your client’s website on the first or second page of Google’s search results. A company might produce … Continue reading