I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. Opinel No. 6 I like simple things that are made well. I’m not afraid of progress, but I don’t think that every new thing is...
My journey through the Discworld series has brought me here to Moving Pictures. The tenth book in the publishing order and the twelfth I’ve read. Since I went back and started at the beginning I can say they just keep getting better and better and I’m...
Between our natural proclivity to routine and the frugality of trying to make it as a person who sells bear jokes for a living, I’ve fallen into some pretty stale habits and routines over the last ten years. True, much of it may be a matter of “if it ain’t broke” but...
At the start of the year, I set two goals for myself. One was to write 5,000 words a day. The other was to walk 5 kilometers. I liked the symmetry. Here we are in February and I’m proud to say that I’ve been killing the walking goal. This surprises me as I hate...
The Benjamin Wallace Books Read-Along Giveaway This is the story of how you can win! We’ll be giving away 5 audiobook codes for a different book every Friday of February. This week, we’re giving away 5 codes for Junkers. This is the tale of a blue-collar...
It's a collection of short stories about time travel, alien invasions, selling homes in alternate dimensions, giant combiner robots, post-apocalyptic beagles and much more. And it's all read by the amazing Phil Thron.