This one's going to wander around a bit before I get to the point. I'm learning my limits. Right now in my DBT classes, we're going over radical acceptance. That is, accepting the facts of reality as they are rather than how we fear…
Well... it certainly has been a couple of weeks, and this on feels a little odd, because I'm writing it directly into the computer for the first draft rather than writing it by hand into one of my journals first. Most everything I do is longhand for the…
I'm tripling up this week with various media that shaped my youth. These are all things that I loved as a child and in my teens. Each property in these lists profoundly affected me, and I can still feel many of the fingerprints smudged across my current creative…
Today I'm sitting in a coffee shop after my weekly trauma therapy group. Thoughts of kindness in all its various forms have been bouncing around in my head since I woke up this morning. Courtesy. Grace. Care. Gentleness. Compassion. As Patton Oswalt tells us, "It's…
It's a special two-for 10 for Tuesday this week. We're going to start with my top 10 nerdy gatherings and then I'll recount my best moments last week at LTUE. I'll go deeper into this this Friday on the Hardcore Fanboy Podcast.…
I'm writing the majority of this on my flight back to California after speaking at the Life, the Universe, and Everything Symposium. First, I want to shout out to my crew, Rook and Sable, for braving the elements and the long drive, bringing my books across three states…
With the popularity of the new print version of First Chosen I got a bunch of questions down at the Escondido Renaissance Faire about being a writer. The two most frequent being variations of: "Why do you write?" and "Where do you get your ideas?" I&…
Oof! Something, something... best-laid plans... something... mice and something or other. I'm in Utah for the Life, the Universe, and Everything Symposium. Getting here was relatively painless. TSA took less than 10 minutes to navigate. I had my row all to myself. I spent most of the flight…
In no particular order, these books or series served as the foundation of my life as a hardcore fanboy. 1 - Tom Sayer & Huckleberry Finn - I lump them together because they were the beginning of a series. (We don't talk about Tom Sawyer Abroad.) 2 -…
It's a chilly Monday morning. Outside, the sky is a bit overcast, but I can see places where the blue and the sunlight are working to burn through. To my right, I've glanced at the collection of journals from across my life. Some of them are…
