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Category: Life Stuff

  • 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…

  • 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.…