I’m sure everyone has someone who has helped guide them through life, either on purpose or inadvertently, someone whose actions help you realize something about yourself, or the world around you, or just had a big impact on your life and outlook. I have a friend like that. But she didn’t just open a door …
Author: termberkden
I am a writer, a software engineer, and a refugee from the punk/metal/new wave/my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night daze of the San Francisco scene.
I write, I run, I actually stop and smell the roses, I meow back at cats, and I pet strange yet friendly dogs.
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On May 8th, 2020 I, along with thousands of other runners across the United States, went out and ran 2.23 miles to honor slain runner Ahmaud Arbery, a man who was killed by two white assailants for one reason and one reason only: Because he was black. May 8th was Ahmaud’s birthday. He would’ve been …
History repeating Itself: And the Band Played On
Biology is weird. I found out that people who run a lot, like me, have much lower incidences of skin cancer than people who don’t run, which is kind of odd. Runners are outside all of the time. Our exposure to the elements, and the sun, should keep that rate level or make it rise, …
Covid-19, Loss, and Anger – Trying to Keep it Together When Remembering Tom Regnier
Occasionally I’ll blog or post about the Shakespeare Authorship Question, a topic I have been somewhat obsessed with for many years. Most of my friends don’t seem to be terribly interested in this topic, but I find the whole subject quite fascinating. The forces behind the Shakespeare myth reveal many intriguing facets of culture and …
People I May Know. Finding People on Facebook
I have a lot of friends on Facebook, and virtually all of them are people I personally know or people I’ve gotten to know virtually through other sites such as Livejournal. (Yes, Livejournal, where I started my online presence! Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m old.) Occasionally I’ll peruse the “People you May Know” section of …
Novel excerpt: Skye Comes Home – Novel in Progress
This is the opening for my novel-in-progress What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? This work is the sequel to my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts. I have prepared this opening and am offering it up for feedback, as it is still a work in progress. Walking down her street, she …
Gender Swap Casting: My Casting Choices for The Producers
My last post was an episode of Gender Swap Casting, in which I proposed casting women in the roles played by men in a remake of Mel Brook’s original The Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. (Plus one mimbo for the Lee Meredith role!) What is gender swap casting you say? In the Wake …
Gender Swap Casting: The Producers
What is gender swap casting you say? In the Wake of the controversial Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, I was inspired by a tweet by blogger Geraldine DeRuiter who said the Joker should be a woman. I asked my Facebook friends about a theoretical Joker movie with a woman playing the Joker and asked who they …
Non-Fiction Books for while you’re Sheltering-In Place
Some of my favorite non-fiction book recommendations to help you pass the time while we’re experiencing the Zombie apocalypse. I mean, this Corvid-19 thing. All of these titles have Kindle editions, so you can easily buy them through the series of tubes! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lafayette in the Somewhat United States You cannot lose with a Sarah …
Enough with the Introvert Humor – Pandemics and Mental Health
I got to know a young woman in a German conversation group that I used to run, a German woman who had moved to the United States with her German husband. I asked her “Why don’t you bring your husband by sometime? We could always use more native Germans here.” She tilted her head around …