Category Archives: Miscellany

Annual Repost: My 9/11 Story

The following was originally posted on my blog on September 11, 2011.- Ty * I had no room mate in college, and people on campus rarely ever called me to do anything. Especially not a few minutes after 9:00 AM on a Tuesday. So there would be only three reasons why I would be woken up …

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More for Miscellany

Believe it or not, I don’t try to out and out sell everything I write. This shouldn’t shock any of you; I offered my essay contest earlier this year for free. (Download a copy of Thoughts I Wrote Down Because I Hate Talking to People if you haven’t yet.) But I also don’t want to publish …

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Perspective on Perspective

A week from today, my collection of lie essays, which I have titled, Thoughts I Wrote Down Because I Hate Talking to People will become available for free as an ebook. Though there are some reminiscences in the collection, it isn’t a memoir, per se. I’ve joked about writing a memoir someday. I tell people …

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Ramblings on Audio Novels

Earlier this week I finished listening to the novel Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom. I liked it for the most part, despite flaws. Here’s my brief review. I often ask myself, when I consume an audio book, (one does not “read” them of course) if I would have liked reading it as much as I …

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World Introvert Day

So today is almost over, and I am just now realizing that it is World Introvert Day. Actually, perhaps in previous years I knew this, but it had slipped my mind. (Though it has only been around since 2011, according to its own site. In any case, how could I not at least post on such …

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