Fight One More Round.
Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you […]
Why I’m Not Trying to Be a “Blogger”
If you have been here before, you may have noticed the little tagline I have under my name at the top of this page. Am I a blogger-hater? What’s the deal? Hardly. A blogger-hater with a blog is like a government employee hating the government. It doesn’t really make sense (though the latter is more […]
Creativity, Power, and Guitars
A few nights ago, before the New Year was rung in, I sat in my basement fiddling with the television. I was installing software to my Raspberry Pi so that I could have a full home media center in my basement, complete with live TV, just like the upstairs living room (insert shameless plug for […]
Quick Tip – Save Money at the Checkout Page
I just grabbed a sweet new plugin for Chrome called “Coupons at Checkout”. Basically, it saves you the time of hunting for applicable promo codes on an online order, so you can just plug them in and grab the savings. As someone who shops online quite often, this sort of thing is a godsend. Click […]
Searching for Happiness
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. […]
My Goals for 2013: Writing, Running, and Reading
Sure, resolutions are easy to miss. In fact, nothing makes you feel inadequate like revisiting your resolutions from last year. But I’m not going to make resolutions – I’m going to make goals. Is that semantics? Yep. But a goal is something I strive for year-round. A resolution is something I say I’m going to […]
The Top Everything of 2012
It’s review time for me today, which I think is one of those exercises that everybody would benefit from. I’ll be going over how I did on my annual goals and setting myself up for 2013, but first I want to look at some of the good things that went on this year. What better […]
Coming Up Short: How to Triage Your Failures and Not Do Them Again
In the past few weeks leading up to Christmas, I’ve found myself noticing little failures in my life. I’m not talking big ones, like “WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE?!?”-type failures, but little things. These are times where I’ve come up short, and often, they can be more frustrating than big problems. Copy projects […]
There’s Only One Way to Improve Your Writing
“Without entering into the discussion, he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing; observed that, though I had the advantage of my antagonist in correct spelling and pointing (which I ow’d to the printing-house), I fell far short in elegance of expression, in method and in perspicuity, of which he […]
The Art of Patience in Fiction Storytelling
I’m generally not a fan of fiction drama. I think it’s because I’m more into real-life drama, and I feel like there’s plenty of that throughout history. Stories like Devil in the White City*, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt*, or In The Garden of Beasts* are chock full of gripping dramatic moments, and there’s the […]