Blog Archive
What is a “Generation”
When I was growing up, people referred in the news media to "Gen-X" as the next generation. Knowing marketing, I understand that the term "Baby Boomer" was simply a way of defining a target demographic. The idea behind labeling a group of people who are of a similar...
Read moreI love people for selfish reasons. It’s not simply that people need or deserve love, which is true, but even when they don’t appear to deserve it, I chose to love them anyway, and here is why. Because it’s about me. It’s about who I want to be.
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I love people for selfish reasons
Just a thought I had today while surfing twitter. Sometimes people question why anyone would love them and I feel like this is an honest answer to that question. I also fundamentally believe that people being loved makes the world better and people exhibiting love...
Refreshing & Restarting
Every once and a while, it's a good idea to re-evaluate everything. I don't know how you feel about living room furniture positions, but I re-arrange my home furniture about once a year. It doesn't matter if I feel like I have found a very functional layout that best...
The AI revolution
Life has been a wild ride. I haven't been writng as much as I would have hoped. I have been super productive though. Probably the biggest distraction for me right now is AI generated artwork. I have access to a few different AI technologies and I have been working...
Isolation blog idea
I think stir crazy is a good description for the state I often find myself in. I work from home and at times, I can find myself going long periods of time inside my home. Although my wife may come or go and occasionally drag me out into society, I sometimes see it as...
Heartache
I've been struggling lately. Don't worry about me. This struggle has been with me for a long time and I will be fine. I just need a space to express it. To preface this thought, I need to highlight my gratitude. I am very blessed. I have a rewarding career, a large...
Stay busy, always busy.
One of the coping mechanisms I developed thanks to my ADHD and chronic depression was to always stay productive. Growing up, I took on the identity of “a jack of all trades”, and every hobby I came across was so intensely interesting to me. At first I merely thought...
Words for Casey
On January 4th, 2022, My friend Casey Miller left this earth after a long battle with covid pneumonia. I was asked to say a few words. These are the words I wrote down and attempted to share. I met Casey as teenagers in the mid 90s, right between my most goody...
Joyous Music Season
I love Christmas music. Every year in Oklahoma some station becomes a Christmas music only station beginning right before Thanksgiving all the way through the new year, and that is what my truck stereo gets set to and stays on for the entire season. It really got me...
Two Wrongs, Too Writes
It’s often said that two wrongs don’t make a right but why is it that we all assume that two rights can not be so. And I’m not talking about a world where there is no truth. I’m referring to the complexity of information and perspective. Maybe the transcendentalists...
A Night With Casey in the ICU
It’s weird to see you there with the machines breathing for you. Your nutritional ooze is being fed to you at the rate of 30 ml per hour. You are eating like a rabbit, just a little food throughout the day. This is gonna be a great opportunity for you to shed some...