Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! In January 2023 I started blogging regularly again, initially spurred by my concerns about AI in writing. You can read them here and here, and see how my concerns match up to where we are three short years later. I haven’t re-read them as I write this column, …
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A Good Weekend
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Progress. Never as much as you want. Always motivated when I need to go to bed. It is January. I’m not dieting, just trying not to eat as much. I am doing the basic rehab exercises for my knee(s) every day. 30 years in nursing (I’m counting my …
Christmas Tree 2025
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Yuletide is here again. Well, technically it has just passed, as the days are once again growing longer. The festive season is festooned with distractions. Work parties, family gatherings, buying gifts. Wrapping gifts, which, when it comes down to it, do I actually enjoy? I enjoy finishing the …
Fuck Doubt
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have a cold. I’m still writing. Four more collage pieces since the last blog. The book is beginning to take shape. Key moments have received their first pass. The act of writing is the act of decision making and consciously or not, plenty of decisions have been …
It’s like broken glass, you get cut before you see it…
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Dio song as origin of this blog's title. I took an unannounced week off here, because I took a week off there, in work-land. I had high hopes for this week. My pool game continues to improve. I really need to start blogging about that so I can …
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Slave to the Algo
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This quitting/cutting back on the internet is hard. The algorithm loves me and wants me to be happy. Just one more video related to one of my previously documented obsessions. Look, it is slightly different than the others. Oooh! An update! New recycled content about Alien!! Updates on …
Writing, Cooking, and a bit of Walking
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So nice to see you! I blog therefore I am. You read (and like) and therefore you are? I have no idea. But I’d like to hope you are real: an audience of bots and AI scraping around for usable data that isn’t already AI generated would be …
Riffing on the Stylish Voice of Conviction
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! A quick one this week, on a thorny subject. What, my friends, is style? Do cats have it with abundance? In writing style seems to be both sought after, and discounted, if you listen to the wild warblings available on the once world wide web. It is both …
Confession and Apology
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Strange time to disengage, the week after releasing your book, but that’s what I did. Missed a blog, and a bit more. I’ve been busy. Living life. Losing sleep. Working, and working when not working. There was some all-consuming play in there too. New Orleans is very diverting. …
Of Cabbage-rolls and Kings.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have improved my day to day constructiveness this weekend. At the cost of learning Scots. I’ll take it, for now. In perusing the internet (never advisable) I have discovered I am the worst indie author ever (by elimination), because I first published 7 years ago and have …
Roderick T. Macdonald 