So this past week was pretty run of the mill — Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee, raced on carbon fiber prosthetic blades in the Olympic 400 meter and NASA landed an intelligent, autonomous robot the size of a car on Mars. Let’s repeat that together, shall we? A double-amputee raced in the Olympics and NASA landed a car on Mars. MARS. [Read more…] about Art and Science
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Quote of the Week for Aug. 6
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
August Already
Summer has flown. Back-to-school commercials are on TV, kids are heading off to college, and sooner than later the school bus will drive by with the neighbor’s children every morning at 8:07 and cause my dog Andy to bark furiously (I won’t mind; he’s 14 1/2 and every day with him is a gift). [Read more…] about August Already
Quote of the Week for July 30
“Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.” — Gene Fowler
Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing
For the past two weeks, I’ve been flat out working towards an Aug. 1 deadline to finish my book proposal, a project that’s been hovering for months. The original deadline was June 1, but other projects came along and threw me off course, not to mention the endless temptations of warm summer days. The distractions kept coming and I thought, if I don’t buckle down and do this, this project will never get done. [Read more…] about Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing