Jeff O'Handley

The Doubting Writer Finds His Voice

Just a Quick Pop-In

First, thanks to all of you for commenting on my existential blogging crisis. I appreciate it, and I will get over it (and myself, hah ha). I can’t quite say what gets into my head from time to time. One of these days, I’ll stop venting over it when it does happen. Anyway, thanks! Now, […]

Sputtering

I’ve been chugging along at this blog for a while now, somehow making two posts a week (mostly), sometimes posting something that strikes me as valuable or kind of important, sometimes feeling guilty about getting people to come and actually look at what I’ve posted. Several times a year it seems I find myself in […]

Feeling Flat Friday

Yeah, this is about how I’m feeling today. We had a board meeting last night. It ran pretty short and was of pretty much no stress. But I woke in the middle of the night feeling sick to my stomach (I wasn’t, fortunately, but I’m feeling about like that unfortunate car in the video. I […]

This And That

Coming to you live from the snow-covered hills of upstate New York…. -A lot of second-guessing over Pete Carroll’s decision to throw on 2nd down from the 1 yard line with 2 time outs. Interestingly, no one is second-guessing his decision to throw for the end zone with 10 seconds left and no time outs […]

Someone Help Me!

I haven’t been able to get Mason’s Children out of my head since Friday! Maybe that explains why I was in such a low mood yesterday. I need an earworm. Nothing really for me to say or do today. My organization sponsored a five mile hike (round trip) to a bog on top of a […]

And that’s about all there is to say right now.

The tree is up, though not fully-decorated. Presents are arriving, soon to be wrapped. Now all we need is the food for the feast–and maybe some fresh snow to cover up the old stuff, make it look a little nicer. Thank you all for coming by and reading my mental dribblings, and for commenting on […]

HEY!

Somebody stole my Monday post–it was a good one, too. If you see it, please let me know.

(Short) Weekend Update

You ever have one of those mornings where you wake up feeling like you’ve been beaten about the head and shoulders with a piece of pipe? Yeah, that’s where I’m at today. I’m hoping it’s because Saturday was a busy, rather physical day. I was a little tired yesterday, but during my writers’ circle it […]

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