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Posting on Kindle Again
My book of love poems, fifty poems ranging in flavor from spicy to bittersweet are posted on Amazon. “Fifty Ways to Love Your Lover,” by Paul Schilling, only 99 cents on Kindle ( Read more... ) -
Looking back over nine years...
It’s been nine years working in China, and now that I’m preparing for the next stage in my life, I’ve been pondering the meaning of the experience ( Read more... ) -
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Looking out the window of my 15th floor apartment in Chongqing is so depressing recently. It’s just apartment skyscrapers and smog along the horizon, and thanks to the smog that’s not very far away. I look down at the street and see these little tent shops of people trying to make a living selling vegetables or plastic trinkets, and one of the tent ( Read more... ) -
Just ranting to relieve stress...
I decided to distract myself from my personal worries by bemoaning the state of American politics ( Read more... ) -
The Amazing Stacy Gwen...
So I went to see the new Spiderman movie, and on my way home I remembered the “Big Bang Theory” quote, “You don’t want to get into it with Sheldon. He’s one lab accident away from becoming a super-villain.” I’m afraid this movie is a little too dependent upon that formula, not so much for the creation of the villains, but for their motives for ( Read more... ) -
Easy Money
Yesterday I got a call; an old friend told me that his school had arranged for a speaker to talk about the importance of studying in America at the college level, but while he had emailed the power point presentation, he had bailed on actually showing up. I looked at my watch, judged the travel time involved and told him that if he wanted me to ( Read more... ) -
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Every once in a while I have an evening like this one during which I regret my intellectual puritanism; specifically, the avoidance of movies and television while living in China. I don’t completely avoid mass media; I’ve enjoyed the Marvel movies, “Pacific Rim,” and so on. But the television in the apartment isn’t hooked up to anything. So I ( Read more... ) -
I'm on Kindle...
I’ve decided it’s time to let everyone know that I’ve finally taken the leap into Kindle Publishing, under my real name, Paul Schilling, starting with my science fantasy trilogy, the Astral Series, the multi-universal adventures of a family torn asunder by chaos and reunited by courage. I’d started blogging as different names because I was ( Read more... ) -
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I was reading an article about frat houses and how a student sued the university because she was attacked at the frat house, and I found myself wondering, should a student be able to sue a university because of the behavior of another student? I found myself thinking not, because any of the most effective security improvements the president of a ( Read more... ) -
Trust issues
It occurred to me this morning that almost all the stress in my life right now comes down to trust issues. The validity of those issues vary, but still the issues haunt me more when I have time off from work than when I’m busy, which is one of the reasons I keep busy. Vacations just become a time when I have time to worry about things instead of ( Read more... )