The Lone Prairie Blog

::Originally written on my old Medium blog on October 18, 2013, with some edits for this version.:: Need a job? Don’t ever be too good for any job. 1 An acquaintance of mine left a job over the feeling that she wasn’t given the proper respect that her education deserved. She would tell me that she was certain the management was jealous and felt threatened, so she left on very bad terms only to discover she couldn’t find another job. During the 2008 crash, anecdotal stories fi

::This post originally ran on my old Medium blog on June 25, 2013. I wrote it when I worked at a startup.:: Big things, like killing a...

I want to throw away the idea of ordinary time. I've let too much time slip by. It never bothered me, if it was ordinary. Another day. Same old stuff. Same people. Same clock. And then something happens that seems out of place because it is not ordinary, it is not usual, and I wonder how I can possibly handle making a decision on such a thing because it looms too large. Change happens slowly and then all at once, but it always happens and that is why time is never ordinary. I

::This post originally ran on my old blog on January 16, 2008. It has been edited for this publication.:: The February 2008 issue of...

At a writer’s conference in Montana years ago, the best advice I got regarding all of the self-publishing scams out there, and how to...

I’d forgotten about Beanie Babies, but a new movie is rectifying that. I have no intention of watching the movie . I’d forgotten how grown adults went through the McDonald’s drive-through to order happy meals just to get the mini Beanie Babies and then throw out the food and go through again and again until they got what they wanted. What a waste. I still have a couple of Beanies, I suppose—a Christmas bear who comes out with the Christmas decorations, maybe a brown bear tha