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Category: Writing

  • Who’s minding your mental business?

    Who’s minding your mental business?

    Upon examination (which we know most rubes won’t actually do) – it always seems to be billionaires and multi-millionaires convincing legions of blue-collar folk that their problems are always due to someone else, the actions those mythical villains do or do not take, or that some poor dirt farmer from a 3rd world nation is…

  • Trading Journal – 2023

    Trading Journal – 2023

    There was some upheaval in the market that caused a lot of money to flow into the tech sector, mostly out of the financial and banking sector. Let’s call it the “Great Banking BooBoo of 2023”. Silicone Valley Bank had just shat the bed. Credit Suisse quickly followed suit – and was subsequently absorbed by…

  • Trading Journal – In the beginning… Part One…

    Trading Journal – In the beginning… Part One…

    It was 2017 – May 8th in fact – when I took my first foray into moving money around and trading stocks. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Of course, I purchased the requisite books one must purchase at the beginning of their stock trading journey, many of which were just as…

  • On Drunks – and the long arc of not wanting to be one…

    On Drunks – and the long arc of not wanting to be one…

    I’ve spent my life around drunks. Even tried out for the team several years in a row, yet, never moved up to varsity from JV. Sure – I gave it a good go. Suited up for many years, but just couldn’t elevate myself into full-fledged drunkdom. Something kept holding me back. It’s quite possible that…

  • On entrepreneurship and being self-employed…

    On entrepreneurship and being self-employed…

    There is a line out there – how fine? Who knows… But there’s a line one has to straddle, between making a living on the internet and maintaining possession of one’s soul. Since 2000 I’ve been making pennies fall out of the sky via the interwebs… In some years – there are many pennies. Some…

  • On alcohol – death’s door knocker…

    On alcohol – death’s door knocker…

    To any of those who have ever struggled with the bottle, have danced with that devil, and have marched, are marching, or want to begin marching in another direction, you’ve been on my mind lately, and for a while… I feel you… I really do… It’s brought a lot of hell on my world, and…

  • On dieting and weight loss…

    On dieting and weight loss…

    A little note to anyone out there who may be struggling with their weight – or body image – or may have made yet ANOTHER resolution to get thinner, lose weight, blah, blah, blah… I just wanted to pass along some truth… I gave up on added sugar years ago. No sugar in my coffee.…

  • Let there be light…

    Let there be light…

    So – the birth of another blog… The genesis of another collection of bits… ones and zeros, tossed into the void in the middle of the night. As if I hadn’t been here before, a dozen or more times now, ready to scribe the next anecdote to, and for an audience of yet imaginary readers.…