Ahh, the first greens from our garden! We went away for the weekend to dance at Camp Jitterbug. I was worried that the garden would wilt away in our absence without anyone to water it. Evidently though, the plants are well enough established now that they can go several days without watering. In fact, the [...]
The submission package for The Renegade’s Door has been in Tor’s in-box for 39 days, according to my delivery confirmation. I don’t expect to hear back from the acquisition editors for some time yet. According to their online guidelines, my submission would only be 20-30% of the way through the slush pile cue by now. [...]
Spring is definitely in the air here in northern California. And this time of year I always start to feel an old, familiar itch: the desire to get seriously lost in the woods, right and proper. During a recent conversation about my plans for a trek into the Orestimba Wilderness, a friend raised one eyebrow [...]
It’s official. I have once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s been just over a week since my second round interview with a local geothermal technology company. Today I contacted the recruiter for an update, only to find that the company has decided to go with another candidate. What was the deciding [...]
If you’re one of my regular visitors, you know that I completed my first National Novel Writing Month last November, and submitted The Renegade’s Door to my first potential publisher in April after four months of revision. If you’re just tuning in for the first time… welcome to the insanity . Renegade is out in [...]
I finished my first foray into Henry Coe State Park in mid April. It was a short trip into the Blue Ridge Zone, hence the name of the article. I used this trip as prep work for the longer trek I planned for late April (more on that trip in a subsequent post). After taking [...]
I recently started writing for Associated Content. You can find the articles I’ve written here. Please click on over to support my writing habit. I’ve republished all of my Renewable Tech series articles there, although without the embedded images and figures I’ve used on my own web site. I’ve published a fourth article now on [...]
It’s official. Today I sealed my message in a bottle, and cast it into the remorseless sea that is a publisher’s slush pile. In late September of 2008, I decided that the ill-fated romance of Devon’s mother and father would be the subject of my first entry in the National Novel Writing Month contest. After [...]
This week I finally installed a rain barrel. It probably would have been better to install it when we were still getting rain… I know. At least we have it now. I looked for an affordable ready built unit for several months. With the asking price for the few I did find was hovering around [...]
Another day, another rejection… sigh. My dreams of breaking into the fast paced world of renewable energy technology development keep fizzling. In the bay area, renewable energy companies are slowly opening up job postings again after several dry months. I was very excited to see an opening for a technical project management role with a [...]
