Cleaning Up My Mac (None of the links in this article are affiliate links (though the Medium links below are member-only articles), and nothing here was created with AI.) I opened my Medium newsletter the other day and was confronted with three or four links to articles about what software
Read from March 25 to May 19, 2026 This book was part of my experiment in reading multiple books at a time. It’s a big book, and I needed a break from it at times. But I think its role in the experiment was a success. Inventing The Renaissance
Read May 14 to 16, 2026 It’s always fun returning to Murderbot’s universe, at least as long as I don’t have to live there. The latest book starts out more in medea res than almost anything I’ve ever read. I was more than an hour in
Read May 12 - 14, 2026 When I finished the Agatha Christie biography I thought I would devote all my reading time to Inventing The Renaissance. The publishing industry had other plans, however, releasing two entries in two of my favorite series, one close on the other’s heels. Medusa
Read May 5 - 11, 2026 I rarely read biographies, but I’ve become a huge fan of Lucy Worsley over the last couple of years and enjoyed her TV series associated with this book. Thanks to her, I’ve started reading Christie. Lucy is an engaging author, even as
I neglected to write individual reviews for my blog of the books I read in April, so this round-up article will be more in-depth than usual. Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story — Leoni Swann, April 1–19, 2026 Look at the headline and you’ll see it took me
This article was originally published in Big List Energy on Medium.com I watched all three King Kong movies over a recent weekend and started my Monday feeling a little nauseous. (No, not because of the movies. It was my GLP-1 pill. It’s that slightly nauseous feeling that keeps
(This article was originally published on Medium on May 17, 2022, a few weeks before that year's Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). The previous year Apple had started rolling out M-series Apple Silicon chips into high-end iPads, and speculation was rife that Apple was finally going to
I’ve been researching vampire fiction in a desultory way, and what better place to go than the original vampire novel. I know many of us tend to think that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the first, but that’s about twenty years too late. (The question mark in the
Started March 21, 2026 Finished March 24, 2026 Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend spawned the Will Smith movie of the same name, the 1971 Charlton Heston flick The Omega Man and the 1964 Vincent Price film The Last Man On Earth. The Omega Man was memorable, if only
Started March 12, 2026 Finished March 20, 2026 I got this book as soon as I learned it was available, and devoured it. Devouring took me a few days. It’s big. I’ve been an Apple user, on and off, for over 25 years. I’ve gone back and
I’ve been retired now for three months. What is life like? It’s slower, more spread out, quieter. Few things have to be done by the clock. Though I spend two hours a day up in the bedroom working on my writing, that’s not a job, and I