I started this blog as a challenge to make forty item lists for the forty weeks leading up to my fortieth birthday. That was all I was thinking about at the time. I didn't expect that I'd want to post anything beyond the weekly lists. I was incredibly wrong though. I didn't even make it … Continue reading What’s in a blog name?
Listing Beyond Forty
Instead of a single vague New Year's resolution ("Get healthy!" "Write more!" "Be more awesome!") I make an uber list of things I'd like to achieve in the coming year. My uber list usually contains some fairly easy to accomplish items and some more challenging projects, but the general rules for items appearing on my … Continue reading Uber list for 2014
Instead of doing a New Year's resolution, I make an uber list, a list of things big and small that I'd like to complete over the course of the year. My uber list for 2013 was a bit longer than usual because I was in the midst of my series of 40 item lists. I … Continue reading Results from 2013 Uber List: Under achievement
The most shocking thing to me about the recent Target data breach was not that it happened. Although the scope of the Target breach is extraordinary, I am always aware of the risks of using credit cards. I used to manage a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance program. I understand the … Continue reading Lesson from Target data breach: Don’t shop with your debit card
A few weeks ago I wrote a post called "40 really awful writing prompts that no writer should use." At least one reader decided to take on the challenging of my rather bizarre writing prompts and decided to take on not one, not two, but three of my awful writing prompts in one short story. … Continue reading Pickles & Cobain: A reader response to my 40 awful writing prompts
Kim Z. Dale 