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on writing absurdity
How does one write for absurdity? After all, what is the absurd. The unexpectedly humourous. The weird confluence of ideas, people, situations and object that don’t normally belong together? Or more than that, shouldn’t belong together. Things that clash in their purpose. How does one pull from a rational brain ideas that align with the…
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essays in downshift
Of all the things I could be writing here, what I should be writing more of is words on the process of shifting careers. I’m practically overflowing with experience in that lately. *sigh* It’s funny, actually. I am sitting here in the sun of a cafe patio sipping my morning coffee and staring blankly at…
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black hole blog
Another navel-gazing blog post to start the week. I would avoid fumbing into another blogging about blogging post on a Monday morning, but I feel like I need to plant a flag at this moment and explain some things. I doubt you’re paying much attention, but if you were you may have noticed that the…
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performance anxiety
There is a teensy chance that people are actually reading this site. I may have mentioned in a previous post that I wrote a blog for something like sixteen years, pulling it down about five years ago when I got into a management role at work and had employees who literally hated me because “me…
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keyboard life
I have developed a lot of little productivity hacks for myself in the past couple years. It’s odd, actually. Realizing that. Odd. For the first year of my career break I wrote about it all the time. The career break I mean. I was always writing about it. I was slightly obsessed with working through…