“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Posts Tagged ‘#365Ways’
Dare to Think
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on December 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Best Advice
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on December 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
— Aldous Huxley
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Look What We Did!
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, accomplishments, cool projects, creativity, history, inspiration, Thoughts on December 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Last month marked 25 years of humanity’s continuous presence in orbit around this fair planet.
25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station
Two NASA contractors, working only during their off hours, have built a portal into all of those resources to uniquely represent the 25-year history of ISS occupancy.
ISS in Real Time, by Ben Feist and David Charney, went live on Monday (October 27), ahead of the November 2 anniversary. In its own way, the new website may be as impressive a software engineering accomplishment as the station is an aerospace engineering marvel.
It’s a good story about persistence and creativity, and it’s great to have all of this history and knowledge in one place.
It’s also easy to get bogged down in the trials of life and forget what’s good. But really? Our adventures in space are pretty incredible. For most of our species’ existence we’ve looked up at the stars and dreamed. And now?
Look! Look what we did!
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Here and Now
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, the writing life, Thoughts on December 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”
— Ann Richards
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For My Fellow Nerds
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, fandom, history, movies, star wars on December 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Here’s something fun for my fellow sci-fi nerds:
How the Written Word Evolved in ‘Star Wars’
The original Star Wars is covered with English signage and written words on displays, something that would change in the wake of the film’s blockbuster success. Both Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi would, with the confidence that audiences had accepted the galaxy far, far away, move away from putting English text on-screen, instead creating unique writing systems—reams of text that were not just left untranslated, but were never given meaning behind the symbology beyond the graphic design.
How that changed, and why, is actually a pretty fun read if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s also one of the many reasons why my first re-watch of the Star Wars re-release was repeatedly punctuated by me exclaiming, “Hang on just a minute!”
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Hello Snow
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, haiku, poem, sentiment distilled, writing on December 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
With crisp sunbright snow
on a cardinal’s red cape
winter welcomes you.
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All Of Us
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts, writing on December 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Last night I had an idea for today’s post, but now it’s gone missing because some days my mind is a sieve. I’m sure the idea was fabulous but I’ll have to wait until it comes back around.
In the meantime, my word of the day is “flawsome: someone who is both flawed and awesome.” And isn’t that all of us?
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Making Peace
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, choices, creativity, life, Thoughts, Writers, writing on December 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a lovely thought piece by Spencer Sekulin on making peace with the ghosts of lives unlived and becoming your imperfect, unpredictable, beautiful self.
Forgive Yourself for Not Becoming Everything You Wanted – Spencer Sekulin
To live one life, you need to condemn many others.
Yet to try to live all of them keeps you stuck, forever.
Spencer’s fiction is also terrific. If you’re looking for excellently written fantasy, check out his work!
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Story for a Monday
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, free fiction, humor, self reflection, Writers, writing on December 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Emily Bressler is helping you recognize, reflect on, and reject hypocrisy with this story at McSweeney’s:
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person.
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A Happy Writing Life
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on December 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »
What does James Patterson, one of the world’s top authors, have to say about leading a creative and happy life? Here are three suggestions that resonated with me:
James Patterson’s Maxims for a Happy Life
2. Pay attention to process rather than outcomes.
3. Excellence is less about talent and inspiration, more about hard work and persistence.
5. Focus on what’s getting better, rather than fretting over what’s getting worse.
For the full list, check out the article above, or listen to the full podcast with Arthur Brooks.
In the end, “how does Patterson find the work of writing? ‘I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it.’”
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