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  • 600 Days and a New Cadence

    When I started blogging again a year and a half ago, I knew from experience that posting daily would only last so long. I knew that, eventually, that cadence would need to be adjusted. After almost 600 daily posts, that time has come. My habit has been to do most of my work on ClimbingSky between 5:30 Read more

  • Cozy Christmas Mysteries

    Christmas Eve Ghost Stories and Christmas Eve Murder Mysteries are a British tradition, but I am not sure they are such an American tradition. This year, as I was planning out ClimbingSky, I decided to try out this very British tradition myself. Since I need to work ahead to keep up my posting schedule, I Read more

  • What Matters

    Believe it or not, this blog posting for the first Saturday of March 2025 is actually being written on December 23rd, 2024. That is how far ahead I am working now on ClimbingSky. I am not certain if that is a good thing or a bad thing from a reader’s point of view. But for Read more

  • Coping With The Madness

    To cope with the Madness that is Trump, I am reviving a few well-worn strategies again these days. And gravitating to some new ones. First, as I did during is first term, I no longer listen to or watch the news in any form. I will only read the news in my morning StarTribune. The Read more

  • On Writing

    For close to 30 years, I have had a habit of writing, editing, and rewriting just about everyday: poetry, journaling, fiction, and blogging. I go through phases where I will send some of it out to contests or for publication. Occasionally I have had someone choose to publish something I have written. These are featured Read more

  • How Do I Work?

    To be able to post something everyday here at ClimbingSky, I need to always have postings scheduled a couple of weeks ahead of time. And have a basic plan for 30 days ahead of time. My personal habit of writing daily helps. As well as sticking to things I have a lot of opinions about Read more

  • ALL-STAR BREAK: Beer Me

    According to the MyBeerNation app on my iPhone, I have been to 195 different breweries/brewpubs. Since it took me awhile once I got the app to figure out that I could add breweries and brewpubs that were not already on the app, I know that the number is higher, more than 200. But officially according Read more

  • Long Time, No Blog

    Sometime before Covid, after blogging on several different sites for more than 10 years, I wrote what I believed at the time to be my very last blog post. I closed my laptop, let the domain I had go, and started working on other “projects.” Recently though, like a phantom limb, I have been feeling Read more