It's been a long time since I've posted!  Whew, what a busy year it's been!  Experienced an epic vacation, got a pool, and spent the majority of the year getting my health in order!  I've had little time to write since about February of this year, which is crazy. ...

In comparison to the fervor of last year, where everything was moving quickly, and change was happening at an incredible pace... the new year has felt strange.  Good, in some ways.  I finally have time to relax and enjoy the things I've worked hard for, but...

On my best day, I'm not the best blogger.  On my worst day, I'm pretty terrible.  I struggle with finding time to write, and I feel an ever-increasing pressure to perform to impossibly perfect standards that no human should ever have to hold themselves up to....

I liked Benjamin Franklin's quote that I used for the featured image of this post because it speaks to the safety of security.  How distrust and caution can lead to the feeling of security and protection.  It's true, too, that exercising caution can prevent injuries....

I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else. ~ Pablo Picasso This statement is very true for me.  As I close in on the last part of Origins -- which may yet undergo another name change -- the final product looks very different from that first NaNoWriMo...

I am terrible at blogging, so I'm trying to tie blogging into something I love: coffee.  So here we go, unwinding the complication of internalization of experience into a cohesive (and enjoyable) layering of expectation.  All with a cup of coffee in hand.  I theorize,...

Lunch comes around, and it's way too hot to go out.  I mean, skin-meltingly hot.  Okay, maybe not for other parts of the world, but for San Diego, it's hot.  I both love and hate food.  I've never been a particularly robust eater (I am very picky), but in the last...