The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.