Discovery
Like so many other kids, growing up one of the many things I wanted to be was an astronaut. I was fascinated by the planets (Venus and Saturn were my favorites), and by the stars and those amazing photos of Earth from space. I used to read our archived National…
Kite Festival
Writing – Little Deadlines
I came across this post on Writer’s Digest earlier: How to Start a Book Project. Sounds like kind of a daunting prospect, right? But what the article promotes is setting little deadlines, little goals, to get a book project off the ground. Because writing a book in say, a year,…
Clouds and cherry blossoms
Leap Year 2012
Leap year has become just another day. I guess there is still a sense of relaxation, if that makes sense. It’s a bonus day that allows you one more day to get something done that maybe had not been taken into account. But when I was younger there seemed to…