“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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How to Live
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers on August 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
How to Make More Time
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, exercise, Thoughts, Writers on August 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We all know we should be exercising more, especially those of us whose work requires a lot of computer time. (Hello, fellow writers!)
This is a pretty fun way of thinking about it, though.
How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known’ | PBS News
One of the things I regularly tell my patients — I’m a cardiologist — is that one minute of exercise buys you five minutes of extra life, which means you definitely have time to exercise, because, even if you exercise even a little bit higher intensity, you get seven or eight minutes of extra life.
So you definitely have time to make in your day to exercise. — Euan Ashley, professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics at Stanford University
It’s like compound interest but for health. Invest a little, get a lot.
I’ll remind myself of this the next time I’m tempted to sleep in instead of work out:)
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Fun Free Fiction
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, free fiction, Writers, writing on August 7, 2025| 1 Comment »
Howdy Readers! Today I’m happy to share a bit of fun free fiction from that master of humorous sci-fi David Hankins!
The Devil’s Footlocker by David Hankins – FREE STORY – Amazing Stories
Phil could sell anything to anyone. New Milwaukee, like most habitats orbiting Earth, was a moldering dump that smelled like rancid grease wrapped in locker room funk, but that was precisely why Phil had come. Suckers living in squalor made easy marks. The locals couldn’t get enough of his micro-transmat-powered Dust Zappers.
Enjoy!
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From Small to Big
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“People overestimate what they can accomplish in a year but dramatically underestimate what they can do in a decade.”
— Maya Andrews, Olympic gold medalist
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Real Life Dune
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, ISS, NASA, science, space, technology, Thoughts, Writers on August 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I have a folder of interesting articles, quotes, and ideas. When the cicadas are buzzing and the temperature is too hot to think of anything particularly timely, I search that folder for stories that might interest you.
Today, this treasure trove of ideas wants you to know about a critical space station issue: water.
When you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there’s no water, and packing jugs of water would take up room when every inch of cargo space counts. That’s a key challenge engineers faced when designing the International Space Station.
Real life Dune! Ok, not really, but kind of! And this is exactly the sort of technology that can benefit the Earth-bound among us too.
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Nothing So High
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, art, crafts, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.”
— Alexander the Great
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Poison Garden
Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Writers, writing, WritingResearch on July 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
A random guide that may or may not be related to the last scene I wrote: A Naturalist’s Guide to the World’s Most Lethal Plants
Not every threat in nature has fangs. Some sit quietly, rooted in soil, dressed in flowers, laced with poison.
And since we’re on the topic, what about the (mostly but not entirely historical) trend of poison gardens, and how are they related to the history of medicine?
Welcome To The Poison Garden: Medicine’s Medieval Roots
Visitors to the Poison Garden are allowed to look but not touch, says head gardener Trevor Jones. “They’re not allowed to stand too close to the plants. They’re not allowed to smell them or touch them or taste any of them, because they do all have the ability to kill you.”
In this as in so many other cases, knowledge is power!
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Creativity: A Tip
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Instead of looking at things, look between things.”
— John Baldessari
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At the Top of the List
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, fun, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I had the interesting experience of trying to explain my latest writing project to someone at a party last night. In French.
Do I speak French? I do not!
It was a hilarious experience (what exactly is “ethical thief” in French?) and I learned a lot. The best part was just diving in and figuring it out.
Did I get everything right? 100% no.
Did I get enough right to make it work? Yes.
And that’s what mattered. It also helped me think through what was important about the story and what could fall by the wayside.
So if anyone out there is aiming for perfection ? (And I include myself in this.) Maybe just don’t. Instead, focus on the important bits.
And having a good time is right at the top of that list.
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Aim Higher
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts, Writers on July 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
True strength lies in admitting weakness, and then working to fix it.
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