Well, speaking of a bad time to blog, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks.

Last time I mentioned there was another reason why I’ve been letting the blog slip.  A few days later my wife went into labor.

Yep, in addition to moving to Colorado we’ve also been getting ready for the arrival of our baby boy.  And by December 7, our new little boy decided that he had waited long enough to greet the World.

So we got our Christmas present early this year, and the past couple weeks have been spent in a time-deprivation haze–like something from an episode of Star Trek–as we’ve been in a continuous cycle of napping and feeding. Everything sort of blends together after a while.

I get parental leave at my company for about a week, and I’ve stacked some vacation behind that so that I’m able to stay home and enjoy this fresh time with the family.

I’ve even managed to get a little bit of writing done at night during the baby’s feeding times.

I’ll try and keep the blog a little more updated from now on.  Although as I say that we’ve got family coming over the next few weeks to visit with the new addition.

Well, it’s been a busy couple of months.  Heck of a time to start a blog.  I figure it’s time to catch up.  So, I’ll start with the Rocky Mountains and our new closer relationship to them.

We had been living in Phoenix for the last couple of years, having moved down there for my job.  The biggest problem I have with Phoenix is the weather.  There is none.

For those who haven’t been there, I should say that it’s not 100+ degrees all year round.  There is only about two months or so in the middle of Summer when it’s that hot.  The rest of the year, the temperature is basically hovering in the middle of nowhere.  It’s not hot.  It’s not cold.  And the air doesn’t move.  No wind, no breeze.  So it just ends up feeling…meh. (more…)

To be clear, I have wanted to be a writer for a long time.  Back even to when I was in grade school.  I ended up majoring in scriptwriting in college, and even was a finalist in a one-act play competition.

Since then, I’ve done a lot of various things: photography, driving a truck, marketing, eventually my current job as a computer programmer.  The one thing I have not managed to do in all these careers is write.

In the last year, though, I have started picking up the pencil again, and getting the kinks out of the literary muscles.  I have come to find again how much I love to write, and have decided that I need to just go for it, and finally dedicate myself to the career I want to have.

Having done my warm-up laps, I took a look around at the writing world today, and I realized that I probably couldn’t have picked a more confusing time to try and jump in. (more…)