Repost: The journey of self-improvement, starting right, uh, tomorrow
[Author's Note: I'm taking the week off from writing new material, more or less, because, well, because. So instead, I'm going to repost a couple of old entries that may or may not have a thematic or...
View ArticleA Little Time Off The Routine
There’s a pretty good chance I’ve written enough times about the vital importance of keeping a young, largish family like ours affixed to the regular weekly schedule that you’d rather hear me pitch...
View ArticleA Helpful Guide For Navigating The Weekend
The picture above contains a popular brand of carbonated soft drink. Well, it’s also of my desk earlier today, and the door to my office. And a window showing sunlight and the outside world where I...
View ArticleStopping to smell the flowers, err, hop aroma
Have you ever noticed that everybody nowadays seems to have lists and lists of stuff they’re actively checking-off to feel like they’re, you know, accomplishing those ever important “life goals”?...
View ArticlePostscript: In Defense of Aquaman
It never ceases to amaze me how every time I start with something small and intentionally shallow, I end up contemplating it hours later in a completely different way. Case in point, yesterday’s post...
View ArticleFilling my Monday with a little Wild Rumpus
I probably should be inside at the computer concocting some long-winded, spittle-flinging, cockle-searing rant about how the kids these days don’t appreciate all the NSA snooping my tax dollars are...
View ArticleIt turns out I’m not perfect. Neither are you. And that’s okay.
Sometime between 10:30 and 11 PM Monday night, I made the entire world stop around me—kind of like Hiro could do on that show Heroes?—so I could fix a problem with the poem I posted in honor of the...
View ArticleThirteen Years and Counting
There are two kinds of people in the world: People who think 13 is an unlucky number and should be avoided like giant hornets lest bad things occur, driving you to sink into the Pit of Despair,...
View ArticleTo NaNo, or not to NaNo?
Since the beginning of the month—well, more precisely since I wrote this post—I’ve been plague by the question titling this post. Should I or should I not fling myself out of the proverbial perfectly...
View ArticleFortunately, The Socks (a Puddintopia Treatise on Turning 45 and NOT Quite...
This pair of socks is pretty much unlike anything I’ve worn so far this year, and not by accident. In fact, I’ve been saving them for today. Because kinda like these socks, today is a day a little...
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