One Decade Later
Charlie briefly pops his head above water.
Charlie
Note to Self
Every once in a while, Present Charlie has to reach out to Past Charlie to help out Future Charlie. That’s what this post is for. It’s a re-run of sorts, combining these three posts into one, while making a few updates along the way. Feel free to read along, but mostly this is just for […]
Happy New Year
Whelp, to say that my plans for 2020 didn’t work out is a bit of a non-statement today. While I’d like to blame it on the Year of the Pandemic, the truth is that my plans rarely work out — even in normal years. Because of this, I decided to scale things back for 2020: […]
Not My Week
On Monday morning I had a plan for the week. “I will take thirty minutes a day, right around lunch hour, to do something for myself.” Quite specifically, that “something” was to be resurrecting my work on the Ronald manuscript. A couple weeks ago I’d printed out the manuscript-in-progress. My first order of business? Getting […]
Plans for the Year
I wrapped up my New Year post with a few half-joking plans for the year. But that’s not like me. No, I have to come up with real plans to kick off a new year right. Fortunately, I’ve made that easy on myself. I only have one plan for this year: Don’t Make Any Plans […]
Temporal Pondering
Anyone born before Generation Z can clearly remember what it was like to think about “the year two thousand.” It carried such a futuristic vibe to it — in such stark contrast to the past ten, hundred, or thousand years: years that all began with a one. Everything would change when we incremented that first […]
Happy New Year
As the clock approaches midnight tonight and we embark upon a new year, I will do two or three things: Reflect on a year of accomplishments Think about all my Big Plans for the Future Beer This is nothing new. I have, after all, gone through this process about 193 times now (although it feels […]
A Visit From Red Ryder
It’s the night before Christmas and here in my house Sit me and the kids and also my spouse. We gather in front of the TV at nine To watch a great film for the one hundredth time. With food on our plates and with drinks in the mix We pop in […]
Happy Thanksgiving
While I realize that, technically-speaking, Thanksgiving is already over, many of us still have three days of “Thanksgiving” to go. So it’s not too late for me to wish you a happy one. As expected, I got no further this week on any of my personal goals. And I’m still nowhere near ready with the […]
Just Kidding
“I’ll give it another shot next week.” — Charlie Hills, November 15, 2019 Whelp, it’s “next week” again already. And no new post. Apparently fate has again decided I get zero hours to myself. Oh well… This week y’all get a Haiku instead of a more poem-y poem like last week. It’s very timely and […]