When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Daiquiris
I keep running into this term “life hacking” without actually knowing what it’s supposed to mean, but on the surface it sure seems to fit what I’m embarking on this year: a personal reboot. That...
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Life Hacking: on the Road to Reboot
Being a family guy, as many of you I’m sure know well, means ego sacrifices. So many over time that a husband/father begins to feel like a component in a machine. A critical one, sure, but a...
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Rocket Dreams
I recently posted a preview of a novelette in progress, Downtime. What I didn’t say and maybe should have is that the story was inspired by one of my favorite writers, Ray Bradbury. Two of his works...
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Armageddon is Relative
here's the #DFW weather recap & forecast including last night & into tomorrow: rain, sleet, snow, light traffic, slush, freeze, Armageddon — Randy (@texrat) February 23, 2015 In my blissful...
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Where Match Fails to Connect
I pounded out a little cathartic bit about my online dating tragicomedy recently, and after a bit more thought and experience realized the failures there aren’t entirely my own. It occurred to me that...
View ArticleA Callout for Bros
So International Women’s Day got me thinking. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that in recent months the raucous discussion of women’s issues has reached epic– or maybe epidemic—...
View ArticleOnline Dating: Game, Set and Match
I‘ve shared some of my experiences with online dating here and there, and with this post I’ll wrap it up. Like Peter Jackson with The Hobbit, I’m turning a small, silly thing into an overwrought...
View ArticleCome at Me, Life
As I write this, it’s early Monday I’m just returning from my second night of an exhausting but rewarding South by Southwest event here in Austin. Not drunk, but certainly feeling the reduced...
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2015 UT Longhorn Run: An Old Runner’s Experience
On an April 11 Saturday much nicer than it had any right to be, the threat of heavy rain fortuitously replaced by a cool misted morning, 2897 runners took to blockaded streets of Austin for the annual...
View ArticleCrossroads decision: GoFundMe for spinal surgery?
I‘ve shared a lot about my struggles with certain health issues, and hopefully some of that information has helped others. Western medicine has been less than helpful and I’ve had to do a great deal...
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A Friend’s Cry For Help
In late 2011 my dear friend Gary Birkett took his own life. To this day I have no idea why he did. He and his wife had just welcomed a new son, and when I last saw him at a conference in Dublin, he...
View ArticleA Tacoholic’s Lament on Antibiotics
Today’s rant is about antibiotics. And tacos. After years of ingesting and digesting some of the spiciest and gooiest substances known to man, it turns out I’ve developed diverticulosis. Not enough...
View ArticleWhy I’ll Stay Single: a Series of Unfortunate Intents
About a year after my estranged wife left I decided I’d had enough being miserable by myself. I wanted to share. Well, more so stuff like joy, but a sympathetic hug now and then would be nice....
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Amsterdam Flashback, 2009
I‘m here for a conference. It’s a Thursday in October and I prepared for chill, but a light windbreaker surprisingly suffices. The sun is partly out as Alan and I tool around the city, and you only...
View ArticleReflections at 54
It’s funny how age can change our perspective. How the conceits that convict us as wild young firebrands evolve and even vanish outright over time. I remember thinking of 40 as some distant trap. At...
View ArticleWhy Dating in Modern Patriarchy Sucks, And You Can, Too
2015 was supposed to be my reboot year. I had it all planned in January: I was going to get my health together, finally get my drawn-out divorce finalized, and have a date for New Year’s Eve. Well… at...
View Article2016 New Year’s Revolutions
As cynical as I may sound sometimes, I’m actually a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. And I sometimes manage to keep some. Here are mine for 2016: Get fiction published, mainstream. This one may...
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