I am sure there will be millions of posts today about the events that occurred on September 11, 2001 and I will be one of the voices in the chorus. It has been 23 years since that fateful day and those of us who are still around have seen more than our fair share of…

Yesterday I woke up feeling a little off and by the middle of the day I was in a full-on state of depression. Nothing could get me out of the valley I was in and it felt as though I was determined to stay there. Today is a much better day but the root cause…

I consider myself a person who is able to experience the creative works of others deeply. I commit to a complete understanding of the work and the motivations that brought it to life, and I am utterly fascinated by other creatives. This extends to every conceivable medium and it is an amazing time to be…

Now that I’m able to stomach the news cycle again, I clicked on an article on NPR that was detailing the polling for the presidential election. The default map displayed is referred to as the “Electoral Weight” map and it shows how much of an effect each state has on the overall election. It looks…

I spend entirely too much time in my own head bemoaning the direction my life has taken. None of this does me any good but it can be a hard trap to free yourself from. I am 42 and I need to figure out what I want my life to be about because all it…

There was recently a security breach somewhere in the government which exposed the private information of every man, woman, and child that holds a social security number in the United States. This puts over 300 million people at risk of fraud as this information can be used to apply for credit of all sorts. The…

There was a twenty on the sidewalk in front of the gas station and as luck would have it I saw it first. I reached down to pick it up and inspect it, looking around for a possible owner but there didn’t appear to be anyone missing it. A few people to the side were…

I find myself contemplating the life I was living just a few years ago and how out of balance it was. I hold up my life today as a model for comparison and it would seem like someone else’s. In 2021 around this time, I had really begun to feel the effects of burnout from…

I wandered onto YouTube to see what a couple channels I subscribe to had to say about all of the recent developments in the world and it was refreshing to see sane conversations being had. The comments sections were supportive and echoed much of the level and rational thinking that highlights how I try and…

The economic landscape has seemed to drop out from under everyone in the past week as markets took a nose dive. My response has been giddy laughter at the panic of all of the people on the news as they describe what has happened and what may happen next. No one is asking me my…