I was once very open about my political beliefs. I was also once a straight-ballot Republican. Age and experience have changed both of those character flaws. I think it is highly unlikely that I will dedicate any space on my blog to political discussion other than this: I am a Libertarian (of the big “L” …
This weekend I was raking leaves. Mundane tasks like this generally present me with a relatively blank mental canvas. Sometimes, I fill that canvas with meaningful spiritual or philosophical ideation. Most of the time though, unchaperoned thoughts are scribbled across that canvas like the finger-painted art of a ferret on meth. I am never not …
I’m an IT guy. I build, maintain and support networks for a living. I’ve been doing it since 1999. This blog journey, like most any endeavor I have undertaken, came with related, peripheral work that had nothing to do with the goal of the project: getting me to start writing. I wanted to start a blog. …
The first thing I recall writing was a Shel Silverstein fan fiction piece, written by hand with pencil and paper when I was nine years old. It was my child-like effort to spin the selfless one-directional morality of The Giving Tree into something relevant to the world I lived in at the time. When I wrote …