Have you ever had a friend accomplish something that was hard, maybe even noble or courageous, and they do it with admirable skill? Let’s say they have just given a public presentation,…
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Day 23: Peace Be with You
There’s a lot of talk about peace in our culture. You know, “Peace be with you” and “Let there be peace on earth” and “I just want some peace and quiet” and…
Day 21: Enya, the most beautiful music I cannot name
I am sitting here right now listening to “Shepherd Moons,” one of Enya’s albums from the early 1990s, and one that helped establish her as the Celestial Goddess of New Age music. …
Day 18: My Money Management Fetish
I have always been numbers oriented: as a child, when I was introduced to baseball, I immediately got hooked on following all the statistics. I pored over the numbers with utter fascination. …
You can fail at doing something that is NOT your dream, too, ya know…
I thought I had it all figured out. I was going to develop my “day job” (in full disclosure: my piano teaching studio) to create a nice base that would help me…
Chaos in “Full Disclosure”-ville
Hello! It is Saturday morning at 7:03am according to my computer clock. I awoke over an hour ago, fed our starving, panicky, hasn’t-been-fed-in-at-least-six-years-or-so-she-thinks cat (one of two, the other is very caaaaasual about…
The Douchebaggery to Badassity Continuum (Where do you stand?)
A long time ago, before I met my wife, I was dating a woman and I remember one time she made a comment about some guy being a “douchebag.” Maybe I was…