by Ira | Oct 30, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
I’ve been doing this blog for five years now…plus a day. I missed the anniversary last night! 😂 In my defense…yesterday was a loooong day. I wrote today. Not much, and not for long…it took me about an hour to write 500 words…but I...
by Ira | Oct 29, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Whew. Okay…so today was a travel day. Got up early, even though pops and I talked for a long time last night, and “hustled” my parents out the door so we could go have breakfast together. I put “hustled” in quotes because it took half an...
by Ira | Oct 28, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Today was really cool. I went out with my family up to Arcata, and there’s this new section of the beach there where these giant sand dunes are, what’s not a new section of the beach but they’ve turned this area into a park now and you can go there....
by Ira | Oct 27, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Happy Birthday to quite literally the best man I know: my dad. I’m keeping this entry short tonight because it’s already 2am and I’ve been up since 5:30am (with a one hour nap before dinner)…but I owe so much of who I am as a grown adult man to...
by Ira | Oct 26, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
You know…there’s always a post-milestone malaise for me, at least emotionally. See, I actually did work today. I got some outlining and brainstorming done for By Any Other Name, some good stuff…but no actual words on the page. Sigh. And, that’s...
by Ira | Oct 25, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Woof. I spent the entire day today taking care of the building. It’s always more work when we have a vacancy to fill, and this time, we have TWO. One was an inch away from being filled today, and in the end, they backed out. It happens all the time 😛 Hopefully,...