Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Parenting Advice and Child Safety
Something I've learned over the last six months is that people will say some pretty strange things to new parents -- even people who have no children of their own -- and they really don't mind getting up in your business to say them. Typically, these nuggets of...
How Protect IP and SOPA Will Break the Internet
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through...
What’s In a Brand Name?
I just bought a new winter coat. I've needed one for a while, as I've pretty much worn all my others to rags. Hazards of farm living, I think -- everything gets worn out for farm work eventually. The coat I bought doubles as a farm coat and an office coat. When funds...
Fiction
Smoke Priest
The smoke merchants pace along the streets of the Market. The cowls of their grey cloaks are pulled up over their heads, obscuring their features. Everyone who comes to the Market maintains a level of anonymity, but the smoke merchants even more so. The product in...
Frost
He resists the voices, even as they wrap around him. He fights but is soon overwhelmed. There are simply too many of them. He feels them clawing at his mind, dragging at his psyche, pulling him down into unknown depths -- and suddenly he is very afraid. His head tilts...
Memories Even of Memories
He dips his finger into the smoke, and it clings to his flesh like tar, even as tatters billow up and swirl around his hand. He lifts his hand to his face once more, inhaling the smoke in one long stream. He leans back, head tilted upward, euphoria making every nerve...