Posts Tagged "distractions"

If you’ve seen less of me online the latley, that’s because the internet stopped working at my place for a few days. It’s back now and I am scrambling to keep up with everything I missed and fell behind on. I feel like I am just about caught up, but it makes me wonder what we did before the internet. I’m thinking the life of a pre-internet writer pretty much consisted of sitting at a desk and writing. If they needed to look something up there was probably a dictionary close at hand. Something requiring more research might have involved a short note and a trip to the library at some point. Modern writers have a wealth of information at their fingertips. Unfortunately, all that information can be a bit distracting. When I need to look...

My dog Jack loves squeaky balls. No, I mean he really LOVES them. Alas, I am but a poor and starving artist and cannot afford to keep him in constant supply since they have about a five minute lifespan in this house. Also, how much of this could one person listen to? My apologies for the dark and grainy film quality, but as the Boxer line in that old joke about how many dogs does it take to change a light bulb goes, “Who needs light? I can still play with my squeaky ball in the...