Category: Blog

I think a lot. With the number of ideas I get in a single day, I wonder why I’m not a billionaire? Today’s idea is to practice music every day. Not a new idea, I know. It’s more like a decision. Today I made this decision to solidify exactly how many minutes I will practice…

I’m a big fan of Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way method of writing for 20 minutes first thing in the morning. I love it so much I just crossed 1.5 million words. I do break the rule though and write on my computer instead pen and paper. Are there really rules in life when it’s for…

I’m in the process of quitting coffee. Forever? Probably not. I love quitting coffee apparently. I’ve done it many times. Dozens perhaps. Coffee has me. An addiction. And I hate it. I hate that. I want it to go away forever. I do want to quit. But why? It just doesn’t feel right. I prefer…

My son loves video games. A little too much actually, and I have some parental guilt about it. Despite having been a gamer myself since the same age, which for me was the Atari 2600. I spent whole days and weeks back then battling dragons as a knight in the shape of a single square.…

I don’t know if I have ADHD, but sometimes I think so. I hate doing tasks that do not interest me, and I can go a long ways in trying to get of things that don’t interest me. I also daydream a lot. Especially when people are talking. If I do have ADHD, one thing…

You see this criminal? Breaking the law right before your eyes. Do you see it? Because I sure didn’t. This is my first dog. I don’t know much about dogs other than what I’ve observed from friends and family that have them. And when we got this one, at 50+ pounds, it was clear she…

It’s hot AF where I live and July/August are always miserable. I’ve found the best way to get through it is not to dwell on how hot it is, but focus on how fast time flies. During late spring I’ll even tell people, “Wow, Christmas is almost here!” Costco agrees with me. Nothing pleases me…

I’ve been free writing on my computer for around a decade. This makes for an interesting opportunity: scanning my own material for poetic phrases. So, I wrote a computer program that prints three random phrase from all my journal entries. I wanted to see if any combinations would conjure poetic imagery at all that I…