Today I played piano at a retirement home down the road. My hour-long show was well attended, for that venue: there were at least 25 people there, all enjoying the music, as…
Day 6: The Most Impactful “Self-Help” in My Life
18 years ago I hit a personal low point in my life. Feeling totally lost and miserable, I realized how clueless I was about how to make my life work. This proved…
Day 5: Opening up the Soundcloud Vault
Hey All (Readers real and imagined): Today I have decided to share and talk a little about one of my recordings I posted up on Soundcloud…. many moons ago. The piece is…
Day 4: Change… the only constant (nemesis)
Have you ever heard the saying “The only constant in life is change?” I have often thought about, and more often fought with, that notion. I don’t know how you are, but…
Day 3: Sitting with the awkwardness
So today is Day 3 of my 365 days towards blogging nirvana. 🙂 I may jest, but truthfully, I am very excited by the opportunity for me to free myself from the…
Day 2: How Much Do People Read?
So yesterday, on a whim, I looked up “how much do people read” because, to be perfectly honest, I wanted to see how I stack up. For the past 3 1/2 +…
365 Days of Blogging Project: Day 1
So I have decided to create a 365 day blogging project. This is probably inspired by the movie “Julie and Julia,” which my wife and I watched for the first time in…
McDonald’s Behind the Arches
Several months back I wandered by the neighborhood used book store. Curious to look at the paperbacks they had on sale out on the street, for 50 centers or a dollar, I…
Vindicating the Profit Motive
What’s the most infamous word in the English language?? I’m not talking about an expletive. We all know this word, and it does not objectively represent a bad thing. In fact, it…
Overcoming Financial Perfectionism
I have never heard this topic discussed, yet I am sure that it comes up quite a lot. I want to talk about perfectionism. Specifically, Financial Perfectionism. Personally, I have struggled with…