So my banker, Kevin Gould, & I have been looking for a new adventure to start off 2013 – a cleanse the palate, clean the slate, turn the page, start the year off right sort-of-thing. We’ve also been looking for something that’d we’d both love to write about for almost a year. Then it happened […]
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To Indiana Lawmakers trying to bring back cursive writing to schools: digital literacy should be the priority
In a state of 8% unemployment, a seeming inability to create jobs that provide subsistence for an individual, & who is adopting the Common Core educational standards where all testing will be done digitally, the Indiana state government is starting off the year debating whether or not to put cursive writing back in school. I […]
Three words for 2013 – And where one would do
“Truth is Singular.” The phrase has been popping up all over the place. For me, it started when I saw the Doctor Who [2005 Reboot] Season 7 Christmas Episode ,”The Snowmen.” Clara is looking for The Doctor and runs into his protective friends who give her a test where she has to answer every question […]
Write a letter to the reader of a novel you haven’t written yet
While holiday shopping at Urban Outfitters, Katie found a book titled 642 Things to Write About by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She thought it would be a great idea if the two of us started going through this book, picking topics on which to write. Katie writes with pen and paper. I write with […]
Reply to friends about gun control post-Newtown: Not an A/B problem.
A couple dear friends were writing about the need to either arm our teachers or use a parental / volunteer quasi-militia to defend our kids during school. After I pointed out the redundancies, they asked me to expound. Below is my response. I was going to put it on three spots on Facebook. But instead […]
And about time I start to get loud, too. I’m tired of testing.
In the last three days I’ve been louder on Google Plus communities & LinkedIn than I’ve been in…well…ever. I’ve been more active on social media and I’ve been less that kind. Well, less than kinder than normal. More to the point – I’m not letting as much go. And it’s because I really don’t have […]
“I think back to when my brother and my sister slept in an unlocked place…”
I’m test blogging on Bella’s iPad 3 late at night while my mother drives me & her back in my car from the north Chi ‘burbs. We just finished our second Thanksgiving dinner, this time with Bella and her family. Every day with her is such a blessing. A second thing truncated my conversation. While […]
Things I learned atop a mountain in Alamogordo, NM (AKA “Happy Thanksgiving” – 2012).
As I’ve probably stated on this blog before, my Senior year at Denom U was when I finally had my first emotional break down. I lost the girl of my dreams. I knew I couldn’t go to seminary. I went from direction, motivation, and purpose to debt, days that would never end, a room without […]
Murphy’s Law of Production: no matter what you do, production will take till the deadline.
Somewhere between the mystics there’s an old man that looks like Grandpa Jones with a beard longer than this sentence & he is laughing his ass off at me right now. Why? Because it’s 4:21am CST and I have to be at a client’s in a couple hours to test a new system that’s going […]
Review of Zac Brown Band’s “Uncaged.” – “I hope they find me in my home with my guitar in my hands.”
So when I found out Zac Brown Band’s new album, “Uncaged,” came out, I was sort of had mixed feelings. I mean, I still love the band. I’d have to check but think I still have passwords from Project 01 that were made after ZBB songs. But given that I’m so focused on Project 02 […]