28 Things I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago
Today is my 28th birthday. And tomorrow is the 10-year anniversary of when I graduated high school. So, even though I know I’m young, vital, with plenty to offer the world, I’m still feeling a little reminiscent. Ten stinking years. It’s been quite a ride through my 20s so far. But one thing I think […]
The Stupid, False Messages We Tell Ourselves
You may not realize it, but you’re talking to yourself. A lot. Like, right now. Every time you make a decision, you have a brief, silent conversation with yourself – reviewing the decision and measuring it up against your past experiences, the information you know, and the assumptions you have. Unfortunately, a lot of the […]
What’s Going Through My Head Right Now
No outlining. No pre-writing. No brainstorming. Here’s just a dump of stuff that’s kicking around in my brain at the moment… I’ve got one episode left in the new season of Arrested Development and you know what? It’s not bad. I’m actually enjoying it, despite the bar being set unreachably high from the get-go. Some […]
Why I’m Starting to Self-Host Apps
The death of Google Reader came at an interesting time for me. Over the past few years, I’ve been scanning and making digital copies of my parents’ and grandmother’s photos. See, when I lived with my parents for 10 months right before my wedding, I lived in the basement. There I found a few old […]
What To Do When You Have Nothing To Say
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. – Heraclitus “So what’s new?” “Not much.” …awkward silence. We all hate it, yet we fall to it so many times. Hey, that’s okay. Sometimes, you don’t have anything […]
54 More Things I Know to Be True
Plenty of things in this world are debatable, but to me, these are not: If you want to be happy, at some point, you have to take a risk. This is true in both your professional and your personal lives. The greatest things that have happened to me in this life occurred when I was […]
21 Things That Currently Fascinate Me
I’ve got a lot on my mind – lots of cool and not-so-cool things going on. So let’s dump them out on a page, shall we? (note: This is a good exercise for you to do, especially if you are having trouble concentrating.) Jazz music. I’ve added the Blue Note app on Spotify, and I play […]
4 Books I’ve Read So Far in 2013
One of the intents of this site was also to chronicle my adventures in “learning how to read” again. The beauty of having an open concept for a blog like this is that I can write about pretty much whatever I want – and I have. But I also want to make sure I return […]
100 Things to Be Grateful For
It’s always a good idea to sit down and write some things you’re grateful for. Some people even do that as part of their daily routine. The point is that listing things you’re grateful for is an exercise in perspective. And while I don’t expect you to pore through this entire list of 100 things […]
The 7 Things That Will Destroy Us
“There are 7 things that will destroy us: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics.” – Mahatma Gandhi