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Posted in Columns on Sep 12th, 2008
I joined up with Intrepid Media — a long-standing independent writers and community site. My co-worker, Tracey Kelley, is an active member, and she introduced me. I just posted my first column there, a well-meaning rant about these crazy kids today: Generation Y not.
Posted in Books & Reading, On Writing, Recommended Reading on Sep 11th, 2008
No doubt like every other aspiring wordsmith, I read Stephen King’s On Writing. I’ve never been much of a King reader — just a few short stories and The Gunslinger. Still, I appreciate his work and success.
His memoirs on writing amused me. They might even have inspired. It’s not much of a book to review [...]
Posted in Books & Reading, Favorite Writers, Recommended Reading on Sep 5th, 2008
Last time I covered A Gentleman’s Game by Greg Rucka, an espionage thriller with a solid graphic novel pedigree from Rucka’s Queen & Country.
I also tore through Private Wars, the next novel in the Tara Chace series.
Here, Tara Chace is out of the service with a baby. This is serious business given the thriller ending of [...]
Posted in Iowa, Technology on Sep 3rd, 2008
The Internet is changing Des Moines, and it’s about time. I’ve started using Twitter in the past few weeks. It took me a while to appreciate it beyond some freakish obsessive compulsion to share what we’re all having for lunch. It turns out, it’s a very interesting peep hole into a growing scene of digerati [...]
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