The summer of 2014 was a pretty crazy one for me! Most of it has been structured around Ryan's trip to Clarion, the associated Write-A-Thon and all of the lessons I've learned since then. It turns out I needed to take a bit of a break from writing after that, just to process what I … Continue reading It’s the End of Summer, Start Falling
Category: Diet and Exercise
Personal: Life After Crunch Time
There wasn't a Friday Fiction last week because a) my full-time job has been pretty demanding this past week and, b) any free time I had was devoted to putting the finishing touched on my Pathfinder game. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I wanted to do, and in the … Continue reading Personal: Life After Crunch Time
The First Quarter (b. 1/2014 – d. 3/2014)
I'm sure today there are going to be a lot of blog posts from alternate universes where people say the exact opposite of the things they normally stand for, and that's fine. Major internet companies have actually gotten really clever with their April Fool's Day pranks, and I'm looking forward to seeing and sharing the … Continue reading The First Quarter (b. 1/2014 – d. 3/2014)
The Art of Pacing
I strap on my heart monitor and put on my shirt -- the one that is clearly athletic wear but doesn't bunch around my "generous" stomach so much that it accentuates how out of shape I am. I put on my shorts, my performance socks, my baby-minimalist shoes. I grab my phone/running app, my keys, … Continue reading The Art of Pacing
Odds and Ends
The votes are in, and it looks like I'll be working on a Sleepwalkers story for February's Friday Fiction posts. Thanks to everyone who voted! There's a lot I still feel the need to wrap my head around with these guys before I'm really comfortable telling the story that I want to tell, and this … Continue reading Odds and Ends
Sketching This Year’s Outline
I hopped into 2013 with a really ambitious goal to write 25 short stories by Dec. 31st, and that didn't happen. I suspected it wouldn't when I made the goal, but I thought it would be a good thing to aim high and see what happened. Unfortunately, a great deal more happened than I thought, … Continue reading Sketching This Year’s Outline
Whatever Your Heart Can Handle
As an online rabbit, I know about the importance of running and cardiovascular exercise to my overall health. And I've been trying to develop a good running practice for a little over seven years now -- first by regular trips on the treadmill and then by carving out good routes around the burrow. As you … Continue reading Whatever Your Heart Can Handle
The State of the Rabbit – April 2013
I'm not very good at those April Fools' Day pranks that tend to make the rounds on the blogosphere today, so I encourage you to imagine that I did something appropriately awesome and/or crazy and you're amused or annoyed by it. I'm sure that whatever you could come up with would be better than what … Continue reading The State of the Rabbit – April 2013
30 Days of Plants and Animals
Today is the last day of my Whole 30 culinary "reset," and it's hard to argue with the results. In the past month I've lost nearly 15 pounds, my stomach no longer resembles a beach-ball, and -- I can't lie about this -- I feel better overall than I've felt in a little while. My … Continue reading 30 Days of Plants and Animals
My Whole30 – Week 3
It's hard to believe that I've just finished my third week of Whole30 eating. Day 21 passed on Monday, and today I'm looking at the home stretch -- in just 8 days, I'll have completed one of the more difficult things I've ever done. I'll have been living on meat, eggs, fruits, vegetables, nuts and … Continue reading My Whole30 – Week 3
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 