A lot can happen in two decades.1 When I posted my first “blog” 20 years ago this date, I was a musician, writing, recording, and performing my songs anywhere and everywhere across the country. I was a young, recently-married father of two (with one on the way) who preferred air-conditioned, indoor life. A cup of…
This blog is getting old. Already well into its second decade. (Well, into, at least.) Today is the day, eleven years ago, that I first set out on this blogging adventure. You can read the post here. Many of the August Twenth-Sixths since, I have linked to that first “blog”. It was not of much…
UPDATE: This sale has ended, but if you’d like to purchase the book, you can find it at Amazon.com Yesterday’s post, along with the several conversations about the church which I referenced having been party to in the recent past, have me thinking about the book I published on this subject. It you’ll allow me…
I had an intriguing idea today. “I wonder what I was thinking and writing on this day through the ten plus years I’ve been publishing stuff here? I wonder if it’s the same stuff I’m thinking in January of 2014?” Seemed like an interesting enough activity to share it here with you. (Hello, you!) For…
There is a definite cyclical rhythm to life. At least, there is in mine. I am a creator. I enjoy creating things. I work with words, images, colors and designs, even code and systems. I also create with food, and a few other physical mediums. And I love to create with imagination. (Bedtimes with my…
I need a vacation. I think I have for a very long time, actually. And we’ve had some. We enjoyed a really nice visit with family this summer. And we just had a nice weekend in Buffalo with more family this past Labor Day holiday. And I’ve had some really nice days off here and…
I have been working on a post titled, “Motivation” for a few weeks now. It’s something that’s been on my mind for a while. What is it that motivates me? What motivates anyone, really? What causes people to get up out of their beds each day and do anything they do, let alone some of…
Today—right now, in fact, at 5:13pm ET—I am celebrating ten years of writing for this blog. On August 26th, 2003, I published this post (about blogging, and my love for board games) and thus began the journey. I had intended to celebrate in a couple ways that never came to fruition. First, I was going…
This is a “for the record” kind of post. Perhaps you’ll find it as appalling interesting as I have while following all of the connected trails in my research. A good while back now, in what was the early childhood of the “internets“, I began what is my current career of website hosting management and…
I recently read that from the inception of the blog, one of the best metrics of this communication medium is the community they generate. To a degree I have experienced that, too. It’s always interesting to read and offer feedback to an article I’ve read around the net, interacting with the others who have done…