A Splintered Mind

Winter not yet ready to relinquish its hold Originally uploaded by Darkstream . This was shot on March 9th, but the weather on Monday didn't look much different, and, from what I hear, the weather won't look much different tomorrow. Still writing. It's all good. Thanks for your patience.

Fashion FAIL? Originally uploaded by Darkstream . …or time FAIL? I actually took time to create my own construction paper Twitter fail whale , then string it around my neck with yarn as a photo response to @ijustine . These are the whimsical ways that ADHD leads me through life. In the meantime, I am writing an article about Twitter & AD/HD. I hope to polish it up for publication later today.

Brin & I put this together over the weekend. I helped in the conceptualizing and filming; Brin did the nuts & bolts editing. I hope you enjoy it. Later today I will post a new article. It has been a few weeks since I wrote one. At this point in time I do not know what I will be writing about, but I'm rather looking forward to the experience nonetheless.

Here's a belated St. Patty's Day photo for ya. Originally uploaded by Darkstream . Using the ToyCamera app on my iPhone. I was teaching the Leprechaun how to read time signatures…again. Hopefully, she got it this time. Allergies have completely knocked me for a loop and a roll this past week. Elm & Cottonwood are not my friends. Add to that my recuperating from the forum I attended on the 12th & 13th and I have not had a very productive week. I know I was busy. I'm sure of it. I just can't remember exactly how I spent my time. I did not view episodes of Stargate SG1 all week long in a neurological daze, I assure myself you.

Dawn Through a Screen Originally uploaded by Darkstream . Trying to take an interesting photo everyday, give or take a day. In this case, I was finding something positive about the fact I was ending my day yesterday when the next day was beginning… With luck, I will have a new article for you tomorrow. Or today. Oh, nevermind. I'm going to bed.

For the past four years I have been very busy with a secret project. I've been helping my oldest daughter work towards being a Country singer/songwriter. I have driven her to lessons and performances, I learned about podcasting so she could host her own, helped her produce it, coded her webpages, cowrote music with her, provided tech support around the clock, and booked her gigs. It's a lot of work, and it hasn't always been fun, but it's been very exciting. And exhausting. Our daughter has been singing since she was two, performing since she was four, and in a dance troop at six. We have had to stretch and grow to keep up with her. When she was twelve we decided to help her pursue her dream. Podcasting was only a few months old, and I knew it would provide a unique opportunity for my girl. We felt early on, though, that the internet was an unsafe place. Experiences in our past had taught us not to trust the world. Yet, here we were with a daughter who wanted to share h...

I've got a few articles on the back burner, but currently am too busy/tired/excited to write them. I'm attending the UVU Forum on Children's Literature in Orem, Utah and have been since yesterday. I've had my manuscript "The Secret Life of My Cat, Sneakers" reviewed again by Rick Walton yesterday. That was strangely exciting. It lead to the highlight yesterday for me which was the brainstorming session I had with Rick about different things I could do to add a new dimension to my story. This session was interrupted by the arrival of Michael O. Tunnell who chatted with Rick about how much the children's book publishing industry has changed. That lead to me tagging along and accidentally sitting at the same lunch table with them and the visiting editor, Abby Ranger from Hyperion, as well as author Shannon Hale . That's about as cool as it got. What? You didn't think I actually talked to any of these people, did you? Fortunately, my friend, author Ca...

Bare threads Originally uploaded by Darkstream . Men tend to wear clothes until they fall to pieces. I might be pushing things with this favorite shirt.

Glasses & Glass Originally uploaded by Darkstream . Finding ways to be creative when I'm bored as opposed to being depressed & bored isn't a new mission. but it isn't something I've actively worked on. I usually end up fiddling with my iPhone, reading email, browsing the web, or reading magazines, however. Maybe by developing an interesting visual language with photography I can make better use of that downtime while I'm waiting for my art skills to get back up to speed. Here I am starting the mission at America's McBest while awaiting my turn to be seen.

I'm busy working on revisions for two children's picture book manuscripts at the moment. I won't be blogging about Depression or Ticking or even ADHD today, though you can probably diagnose me with the picture above. Like reading The Splintered Mind ? Share articles with your friends, link from your blog, or subscribe !

I've been invited to contribute to Dad-o-Matic . I'm very excited about this and hope to eek out a regular schedule over there. You can find my first post here , or read it below. Let me know what you think. Sunday is traditionally the day of rest, but it’s usually spent catching up on all those projects we promised to get to over the weekend. The kids can’t stay up late, so there’s a tighter Sunday night bedtime for most folks, and you can’t stay up late because you probably have work to get to in the morning. That’s why Sunday afternoons are usually a blur for me. As they say, so much to do, so little time. Throw church into your Sunday morning or a game later in the day and you have the fixings for a hectic day of “rest”. Today was a Sunday like any other. My wife was taking a nap. I was running around working on a todo list filled with family photos & videos waiting to be edited, organized, and put up on the family website for eager relatives back East. We were down one...