Author Thoughts Today – Hurled – 091525 Have you ever side-armed a flat stone across a still pond and watched it skip? The harder the stone is hurled, the more it skips before giving in to gravity and slipping into the ultimate destination – the water of the pond. A Life of Faith is a […]
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Author Thoughts Today No More Turning Away – 091125 As I packed away my laptop to head into the building at a job I had just started a week earlier with Roche Diagnostics in Indianapolis, I caught the tail end of a new broadcast that said a small private plane had crashed into the World […]
Live Podcast Recording – Gary G. Wise – Author Sunday evening, September 7th, I was blessed to be the guest author on the Shine with Curiosity & Encouragement Podcast. Considering I’m killing the rankings as an unknown author, a quality podcast is an honor and a thrill to be invited to have a conversation about […]
A cup of coffee on the deck with two cats watching the sun hiding behind a foggy shroud was my silent time this morning. One of the benefits of being unsupervised is the freedom to enjoy the peace and solitude of a new day. I listened for the still, small voice of God but only […]
083125 – Author Thoughts – The PTSD Connection When writing Book #4 – Dead Thoughts – I completed a great deal of PTSD research and uncovered a treatment called Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT). According to Dr. Barry Krakow and Antonio Zadra, IRT is a cognitive therapy approach that has been used for the last twenty […]
Author Thoughts Tangled Up In Dreams – 082625 As I began to pull thoughts together after only a single cup of Café Verona, one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs hit my mind’s ear – “Tangled Up in Blue.” That one will be toward the back of the rack, but once it’s in your head…sorry […]
Lost I’m writing today, as in most days, highly focused and dialed into a storyline…and, oh look, a squirrel. Perhaps I’ve confused reaching saturation with being highly focused. I had so many tabs open across the top of my browser that I lost count, but what was the point? It was too damn many to choose […]
As I researched Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Dreamscape Conspiracy Series, I became convinced that no single definition does complete justice to what AI can be or how it can behave in human hands. Scientific discussions and exploratory investigations span a spectrum ranging from courageous innovations to catastrophic impacts on humanity. Given that I am […]
Author Thoughts – Hey Man! – 081925 I’m unsure how these things happen, but I assure you I attempted to mind my business until it was no longer possible. I concentrated on a glass of dry cabernet when an individual sat next to me…with the appropriate empty chair between us, of course. I knew him […]
Author Thoughts Today – Why Fight It – 081825 I learned a new word this weekend – Eremitism – The act of gradually fading from the lives of others, not out of malice but a desire for solitude or peace. I get that, and I appreciate the need for it sometimes. Now that I’m unsupervised, I […]