Journals of Journeys


Archive for October, 2004

Get Real

Recently there was an editorial in the paper by a “concerned citizen” who was annoyed firefighters and police officers make more than s/he does. The writer said it wasn’t fair that s/he was making $20K a year while cops and firefighters were making $60K, complaining that s/he couldn’t buy a house on that small […]

Friday, October 29th, 2004

Who? Me?

I’ve changed the site around a bit and have dropped off the “author” biography at least for the time being, allowing me to focus on packing, moving, selling a house and, of course, writing for the NaNoWriMo challenge. But there have been rumors out there that folks just prefer to have some sort […]

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

2004 NaNoWriMo Begins: Thoughts

Last year I entered, at the encouragement of a colleague and friend, the annual National Novel Writing Month challenge. If you’re not familiar with it, take a gander by going to http://www.nanowrimo.org. To sum it up real quickly, entrants are to write 50,000 words in 30 days beginning at a minute after midnight […]

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

NaNoWriMo 2004

I must be mad. I’ve just signed up for this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge again. Yep. Me. The one who is moving , getting ready to sell (possibly rent?) a house , has the kids home for an entire week of Thanksgiving rather than the traditional 3 […]

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004