Two Decades of Collected Miscellany, Now What?
In a way that seems emblematic of the near demise of this blog, CM turned twenty years old last Friday and I forgot to post about it. Crazy as it sounds, this b...
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Now on Micro.Blog
Having gone silent on this website for two months, and perhaps in a last ditch effort to return to blogging, I have started using Micro.blog again. So if you ar...
When you want to give up your New Year’s Resolution after two weeks…
A harsh reality I have had to admit to myself: if I had the ability to write insightful, well-crafted book reviews of serious non-fiction then I would be writin...
The Future of Collected Miscellany
The biggest motivation for me to keep this site going is the realization that social media and other distractions had undermined my ability to concentrate and f...
nothing has changed in nearly seven years
Who do you write for when your audience disappears? – Sadly, nothing has really changed in nearly seven years…
Pondering the death of a blog or Deja Vu all over again
More than halfway into the second decade of CM I am again pondering quitting. This is something I have been doing since before the tenth anniversary.