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Category Archives: daily life
Rambo Academy Campus Calendar for March 2021
Zoom links will be available on Patreon, pinned in #localannouncements on the Discord server, and available via the !calendar command on Discord. How do you get access to these events? Details are here, but basically you can subscribe through Patreon … Continue reading
Rambo Academy Campus Calendar for December 2020
Zoom links will be available on Patreon and pinned in #localannouncements on the Discord server.
How do you get access to these events? Details are here, but basically you can subscribe through Patreon or Paypal. There are free scholarships.
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Vacationing, plus Reinvented Heart Update
There’s a section in the LotR where Bilbo talks about feeling like a bit of butter that’s been scraped over too much toast, and while I have done nothing as noble as being a Ring bearer, I do identify strongly with that physical state. My eyes are scratchy and I’ve got that rubbed-raw, sleepless mode that has me awake at 2 am wondering about where this world is wandering. Sometimes the urge to go lie down is overwhelming, but it’s so hard to turn the hamster wheels of my thoughts off long enough to nap. I’m more distractible and I can tell I’m missing details sometimes (more than usual, at least). Time to take a breath.
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Rambo Academy Campus Calendar for October
Thursday, October 1 Co-working 8:30-10:30 AM Handicrafts/Journaling 1-2 PM Co-working 6:30-8:30 PM Friday, October 2 Clean and chat, 10-11 AM Co-working 1-3 PM Cat Reads at Cmonfluence at 2 PM SFWA Panel 4 PM Saturday, October 3 Power and Politics … Continue reading
Chez Rambo in the Time of the Pandemic, mid-July Check-in
Wow, it’s been a long time since I last checked in. By now, pandemic existence seems somewhat normal. We have masks, plastic gloves, and sanitizer by the doorway; we’ve been out for fast food maybe once a month and felt … Continue reading
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Tagged baby driver, daily life, devil's gun, exiles of tabat, publications, Tabat
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Checking In: October Stuff
I’m off to Multiverse Con next week – it’s their first year, and I’m there as Industry Guest of Honor along with Seanan McGuire and John Piccacio. Come say hi if you’re there! Two weeks after that I’ll be up … Continue reading
Poem for Sarah
Some deaths hit you like a broken bone. That sharp. That painful. They stick with you, hurting even when healing, a dull throb keeping you from sleeping; a startled, knifeslash pang when jostled. And you know that, decades later, it’ll … Continue reading
Resist Through the Way You Exist
One thing that’s emerging from discussion about the New Green Deal is that to act ecologically, to believe that climate change is real and that we must all work together to avert the worst of it, is now considered by some a radical leftist notion.
It is a given that the corporations must change their ways, must stop polluting and destroying the commons – the natural resources that belong to us all as citizens of this planet. The government must stop rolling back environmental protections — and put back the ones it’s stripped away while also stopping the flow of those resources to profiteers. But at the same time we as individuals can live in ways that help move us evolve into a society that places less strain on our planet.
You can #resist through the way you exist, and particularly the ways you spend money.
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Tagged eat the rich, resistance fiction, resistance writing, writing with courage
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2018 in Retrospect Plus Here Comes 2019: Ever Onward, Ever Hopeful, Ever Joyful
There’s only one day left of this year in which to reflect upon it, and one thing I’ve been urging students to do is sit down and reckon up some of their accomplishments as well as planning out next year’s goals. So here I am, practicing what I preach.
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Pilot’s Varsity Disposable Fountain-Pens
I do a good bit of writing by hand, usually in a large hardbound sketchbook, although I sometimes like the feel of a nice narrow yellow-lined pad or the sprawl of an enormous expanse of drawing paper. And to write … Continue reading
