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Hey everyone!  It is January 21st, and I am finally ready to ring in the new year…

Illness broke be for quite some time, and I have not been able to sit at my desk, or even use my computer for any extended period of time, but I am mostly better now, and we have a lot of work to do this year so I hope you are feeling up to it!

As always we are looking for suggestions on topics and direction for the new year.  I have some plans, and they will become clear soon, muhaha.

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I find myself thinking about the “Good Old Days” a lot lately.  This is not just a condition of thirty-somethings like me.  A surprising number of twenty-somethings I know are doing it to

Telling War Stories

There is some value in sitting around with your friends telling stories about our pasts.  It is how we come to know each other.

With increasing frequency, I have noticed that stories are not shared as memories, but as a wish for a return to our glory days.

Times Arrow

We are propelled forever into the future, writing ever more moments of our lives into the past.  Everything changes.  What is important is that we do not allow ourselves to become mired in the past.  We can learn from our past, but there is no known power in the cosmos that will allow us to return to a time already lived.

When a chapter closes, we have to turn the page and write the best words we can on the page.

The Best is yet to come

Believe me.  Several times, I have thought my best days were behind me.  The though enters all of our minds from time to time.  The fact is, it is easier to look back than it is to look forward.  We know the past.

Might I suggest we learn how to know the future.

• Plans help
• Goals motivate
• Hope enlivens

We have to find a way to have all three.  That is why I am thankful to Gene Roddenberry.  Star Trek gave me a vision of the future that is hard to strip away from my eyes.  The world I want to live in doesn’t exist yet.  I have too much work to do to waste time looking back.

How do you keep yourself looking forward?

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…and I thought I would post one of my favorite videos.

Another year has come and gone too quickly.  I am not sure where the year went, but it has been a great one.  This year, I came out of my shell and have decided to trust people again, which is not an easy thing for me to do.  It is easy to forget how wonderful it is to have friends and people you care about until you live for a long time cut off from others because you don’t want to be burned again.

This is the year I learned that I am not alone, and their are people you really love my writing.  Thank you to every one who bought my books, and thanks even more to all of you who wrote to me to tell me how you feel about them.

Next year is going to be a year of changes.  I have a lot of plans and I am pretty sure, I have developed the disciple to accomplish my goals.  Together, we can make dashPunk Media live up to my dreams, and move fandom and speculative fiction forward.

Here is the plan:

Next year we will

Work It
Make It
Do It
Makes Us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
More Than
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After
Work is
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Work It
Make It
Do It
Makes Us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over

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