winners and losers?
Its funny, when I first signed up for Twitter I was fairly convinced it was worthless. So worthless in fact that I ended up completely deleting my account! 18 months later Twitter was still there and growing and I knew I had missed something so I signed back up and even was able to get [...]
For about the last 3 years my wife and I have run a small business that helps individuals who work for non-profits and have to raise their own support with their marketing (newsletters, websites stuff like that). Whenever I tell someone that I “own a small business” they get all dreamy eyed and usually say, [...]
Have you ever had your ass kicked? It happens all the time on the movies, the hero or the villian takes a beating but seems barely phased. That’s total horse crap in case you hadn’t guessed yet. I don’t know how I got to where I am today. I suppose a little reflection on my [...]
Our culture is consumed by fear. Its all the rage. Afraid of Osama; afraid of the world melting; afraid that we won’t get to keep our happy little lives the way they are. In many ways there isn’t anything more wrong with our collective consciousness’s than this fear mongering we are so adept at. But [...]
NPR runs this great series called, “This I believe…” where people submit essays that start with that phrase. It used to run in the 1950′s and about a year ago they started running the segment again. Its really great. Penn Jillette (from Penn & Teller fame) recently submitted an essay saying he believes there is [...]
So, normally on Sunday afternoons, between the late game and the evening game, I go and play basketball with some guys from church. Its always a great time… but today, in addition to the insult of having the Bears lose to New England, I somehow hurt my back. Now, when I say I hurt my [...]