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Life without Goalposts

A study of life's surprising journey

Life without Goalposts

Thoughts on life's unexpected journey.

This is over the line!

08/20/2018

Hi Everyone! Busy weekend this weekend! I apologize for the late post. I had a job, hosting and caddying for a bridge tournament at the Des Moines Bridgehouse. I have been working them for the past five years or so, and I always look forward to seeing everyone again and helping them with the beautiful dishes they bring in. I haven’t had much time to draft posts this weekend, so I’m just going to share a story from my childhood for your amusement. Enjoy! So I was learning to
The abhorrent vacuum

08/12/2018

Nature abhors a vacuum. I don’t blame her. There is finite space and finite resources on this planet. In fact, space is a resource and resources being put to use in the physical world is a reasonably logical concept to most of us. If we don’t eat the food we buy, fungi and insects are more than happy to kick in. Didn’t go into the garden shed for a year? I’ll bet you’ll find all kinds of fauna making use of the space. Sure this system may cause headaches for the average homeowner. (or
Finding my writing style

08/05/2018

So I am now up to page 186 in the book and it coming together nicely I think (I hope anyway). Although that may be subject to change as large parts of the text are in bold type, I’ll explain more about that later. As part of the writing process, I’m reading a lot about how to plan a novel. There are a lot of different theories on the subject. Most of them discuss how to plot your work, which is more or less how I used to outline a research paper or speech. I tried different takes on this

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