Begin Each Day Showing Gratitude

Today’s new post is in the above video. – - Return To Home Page | Artists’ Artworks Index | Facebook | Twitter You can receive notifications of new posts through email notifications, WordPress… Read More →

Creating Things That Are Very Imperfect

What concepts might help someone be more creative? Do you wish you were more creative? Creating things for others is important – even when you know what you will create will be imperfect… Read More →

Kiva And Kickstarter Updates

Kiva.org I should begin by saying I am not a particularly charitable person – as most people might define “charitable.”  Instead, I focus on finding specific people who might benefit from specific assets… Read More →

For Writers: There Is No “One Best” Writing Checklist

I write on days when I don’t feel like writing.  This is because I write primarily to please others.  In this modern age of a “30 second news cycle,” where the “biggest” stories seem to come in… Read More →

The Skinny

Whether a person has an eating problem (too much, wrong stuff, or too little), or a problem with prescription drugs, or they destroy parts of their life because of their preference for alcohol… Read More →

What Is The Best Relationship Advice Someone Gave Me Recently?

Do you struggle with relationships?  Are you at ease in the company of others?  Or do you often look to get away from social situations, preferring to not have to parry through potential… Read More →

Endings, With Their Cognitive And Concrete Limitations And Self-Fulfilling Tragedies

If I could tell the world just one thing today, if I could only discuss one topic I thought may be worth more consideration, it would be this: I finished reading Patrick Rothfuss’… Read More →

If I Knew How To Do More Good, I Would

Have you ever wondered?:  What goes on in the mind of someone who regularly thinks:  It would be a good idea to write posts about sexuality and love in the arts. Sounds pretty… Read More →

Thank You

Thank you to the regular readers and visitors of this blog.  Life is often shaped by the connections we make, how we make them, how we define them, how we adapt them, and how… Read More →

The Marvel Way

For those of us that have followed the history of Marvel Comics for a long time, Sean Howe’s new book tells more specifics about the general information we already knew. And unfortunately, a… Read More →

Sexuality In Art And Real Life Relationships

I watched the 2012 film “Nobody Walks” this evening.  As the title may imply, the heavy-handed, fairly one-sided moral of that story is:  If you have sex with people other than the only… Read More →

Trying To Understand Why She Left You

“That’s the crazy thing about it is:  Breaking up with someone is literally the most common thing.  Like everyone you know broke up with everyone they ever dated . . . until maybe… Read More →

Understanding Wealth – A Letter To My Father’s Grandchildren

This is a letter I wrote to my father’s grandchildren today: As you may know, my father left my mother and me when I was about 3.  That’s when the physical separation occurred.  Other kinds… Read More →

People Who Are Consistently Kind Tend To Attract Kind & Giving People

Building off of yesterday’s post about considering the needs of the many rather than just the needs of a few or just one, and a post series that began with a post about a… Read More →

The Many, The Few, And The One

“The needs of the many outweigh . . . the needs of the few . . . or the one”  ~ Star Trek II. Building on ideas from yesterday’s post, when I encounter someone… Read More →

You Get To Choose Your Instruments

And you get to choose how your instruments are played. If you want your life’s work to be an instrument of enduring love, you will likely receive enduring love in return. If you… Read More →

What Can You Learn That Will Profit You? #3 – Why Pursue Education?

Sometimes it is important for certain things to be said publicly.  Often it doesn’t matter who says them.  It’s more important that someone says them. – - The importance of trying to educate yourself… Read More →

400 Songs That Shape My World: #396 “Red Rain” by Peter Gabriel

This is a list of 400 songs that continue to shape my world, the soundtrack of my life.  I encourage you to click on the above video, to hear the song as you… Read More →

Schizophrenic, And Yet Successful

I rarely just re-post another article, but this NY Times opinion piece fits right into this blog’s wheelhouse.  This blog often focuses on therapeutic ideas that may help imperfect people in an imperfect… Read More →

An Argument With My Teenage Son

It is probably never a good idea for one person to try to paraphrase the nature of an argument, without allowing the other person to tell their side.  But there may be something… Read More →

What Is The Greatest Role You Can Ever Be Cast In?

Weak And Scared Today was a tough day.  My youngest boy came to me tonight, saying he was “weak and scared.”  At first, I thought he was angling toward convincing me to allow him… Read More →

The End Of The Innocence

Today, Lance Armstrong began the confessional stage of his life’s story, starting a new presentation of his public image. Tonight, by coincidence, I happened to watch Ron Howard’s 2008 film “Frost/Nixon.” It’s interesting how… Read More →

Your Success May Not Depend On You As Much As It May Depend On The Crews You Choose

Your crew is not you. You are not your crew. You will probably be a member of different crews for different pursuits. Often, you will not lead the crew you are in.  More… Read More →

The Ones Whose Stories You Want To Tell To The World

The photographs above are of Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address in March 1865.  John Wilkes Booth is in attendance, above Lincoln.  Booth assassinated Lincoln in the next month, April 1865.  Click on the images… Read More →