Category Archives: Personal history

The Afterlives

Posted on Monday 2 November 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

I wrote this on my phone on 31Oct20, 5 days after having triple-bypass surgery, and a couple days after I formulated the thought but didn’t have a chance to write it down on anywhere. If there’s an afterlife, it is … Continue reading →

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How These Projects Are Proceeding; Status; Word Counts

Posted on Wednesday 16 September 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

Projects. I’ve just edited this to change two targets end-dates from 2019 to 2020. It would be fair to imagine that I’ve gotten more done this year on my various projects than I otherwise would due to the pandemic and … Continue reading →

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Status; Links and Comments: Conservative Willful Misunderstanding of Coronavirus Deaths

Posted on Friday 11 September 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m behind on commenting on newspaper and magazine articles; it’s been almost two weeks! This is because, as I’ve detailed on Facebook (though I realize some readers of this blog might not see my Facebook posts), I’ve been busy finishing … Continue reading →

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Stamp Collecting

Posted on Friday 7 August 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

In the year or two that I collected stamps, about age 12 and 13, inspired by my Great Aunt Maude when we’d moved to Illinois, I discovered companies that would do approval services similar to those that book distributors did … Continue reading →

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About Dreams

Posted on Friday 3 July 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

Keying off the previous post, I was fascinated by Gottschall’s comments about dreams, how they often focus on important or threatening things in life. I’ve noticed certain themes in my own dreams, in that they invariably involve some problem, a … Continue reading →

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Notes for the Book? Certainly Excerpt from the Memoirs. Hierarchy of Process Management: CMMI

Posted on Wednesday 1 July 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m frequently fascinated by trying to recreate my train of thought — or perhaps I should say, I occasionally realize how my train of thought came about and am fascinated by the realization. For five or six weeks now I’ve … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary May 2020: Replaying the Myst games

Posted on Friday 15 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

Here we are at the middle of May, some seven or eight weeks in to stay-at-home orders here in the Bay Area – when it started, my partner began working from home, except for the one day a week he … Continue reading →

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Academics

Posted on Friday 15 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

(This is another essay to become a section of my “memoirs,” to be promoted to a page rather than a post, eventually.) It’s a truism that once you become an adult and have a career job, no one cares about … Continue reading →

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Apple Valley: Interludes

Posted on Sunday 19 April 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

I lived in (until kindergarten) or visited Apple Valley from the very late 1950s until the mid 1980s, with a couple visits even later than that. It’s the place I think of as “home” more than any other place in … Continue reading →

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My History with Pseudo-Science (Briefly) and Science

Posted on Monday 13 April 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

I went through a brief phase of interest in pseudo-science. Beginning at that 7th grade book fair when I bought (in addition to Blish’s Star Trek), an early edition of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and a book by Frank … Continue reading →

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