Take me back to Cancun!
Back-to-School 2007 Even though I’ve not been to work since Friday, August 24th, my vacation pretty much ended the minute we landed at JFK last Wednesday evening. Within minutes, no matter how often I supressed them, thoughts of back-to-work and back-to-school things-to-do steadily flooded my brain, and not even my new Nintendo DS and Pokemon Diamond could completely defeat
Cancun & the New School Year
Cancun 2008 We had a GREAT time in Cancun, as memorable a vacation as I’ve ever had, and took a ton of pictures, the best of which are up on Flickr at the link. There’s some more from the Underground River in Xcaret — my new favorite vacation destination — that I need to get developed the
Top 10 Must-Reads
Let’s make a meme-ory! If I had to choose 10 books to recommend to someone as representatives of my personal favorite reads, it’d look a little something like this (today, at least): Fool on the Hill by Matt RuffGates of Fire by Steven PressfieldLa Perdida by Jessica AbelLadies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning by Jonathan
QotD: Life-Changing Decision
What decision changed the course of your life? Submitted by Ally. December 9, 1996: After much internal debate, getting off the line to exit the parking lot at Jersey City State College, parking my car, and unexpectedly jumping into a classmate’s car to clumsily explain to her that, despite having a very good reason to
Killer App: Scrabulous @ Facebook
Scrabble Tournament Ad from France Because the last thing I need is another Web 2.0 distraction, I avoided Facebook when it first opened up to everybody. I’m on MySpace and [used to] barely ever log in except to delete friends requests from newly relocated single girls who think I’m cute and want to share their nude
Mr. Mom, Day One
Picnic Spread Salomé’s away for the next few days so it’s just me and the kids which, unfortunately means the kids and a babysitter since I’m at work every day this week. Originally, they were going to be down at my mother’s place in Virginia, but schedules got twisted around and they’re not going down until
38 Years Old?!?!
Leos Rule Well, damn! There was a time in my early 20s when I was convinced I was going to kill myself on my 30th birthday because I knew life pretty much hit the downslope at that point. Dumbass. I got married one month before my 29th birhday, after a decade of attempting to make “30
Craft vs. Passion (More NPS Thoughts)
Lynne and I used to argue all the time about craft vs. passion when it came to acknowledging the potential of a new writer, she preferring the former while I preferred the latter. The ideal, obviously, is to have both, but with newer writers especially, you usually get more of one or the other. Ironically, Lynne and I
The National Poetry Slam Experience
There’s so much to say about this past weekend in Austin, but I’m totally unable to process it into words that would be fully accessible to anyone who wasn’t there…though that won’t stop me from trying. The National Poetry Slam Experience is so multi-layered, a dizzying mix of emotional, psychological and physical stimuli, that you truly have to
Things to do in Austin
Nerd Slam Events Bad enough it’s the day before I head out for Austin and work is the least interesting thing I can think of doing right now, but it took me over 3 hours — 2 trains, some walking and McDonald’s for breakfast — to get here thanks to the flooding in lower Manhattan, so my whole