Author: Brad
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fall into quitting
Autumn approaches and I prepare to cross the first seasonal threshold of my adventure in life-skewing decisions. I quit in the spring. I stopped working in the summer. I tiptoe towards fall with an odd sense of nextness that I can’t quite put my finger upon. It may be that I’ve been delving into the…
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plotting code
Worth checking in on my progress, I think, as I continue to simultaneously pound away on a couple of writing projects AND build a piece of software to assist with that effort. Key to these efforts is that I’ve been writing a story. Not quite a novel. A story with some weight and length, but…
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part three
Let’s recap. In part one of this saga, having just days prior made an exit from my job of thirteen years, the family and I boarded a plane to London. Following that was three weeks of European adventuring, photography, sketching, food, museums, wandering, trains, tours, and fun. In part two the epic saga continued as…
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podcast fiction
I’ve been writing. It’s a compulsion, but it is somehow, deep down, my life purpose. To write something. And ultimately I probably somewhere, somehow care if it is eventually published, but at the end of the day the exercise of putting words into the white spaces of paper, digital or dead-tree, is fulfillment of that…
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fast
Worth noting only for my own future recollection, about 48 hours prior to writing this I was almost half way done running my fastest half marathon. I’ve been aiming, however vaguely that aim may have been, in the direction of a sub-two hour half marathon for the better part of a decade. Two hours is…