I’m one of those people who believes people should take a shot at achieving their dreams. I’m also a realist, which means I know that the overwhelming majority of people aren’t ever going to come close to giving it a shot? Maybe it’s you; I don’t really know or not. I do know I’m right […]

Over the past few months I’ve been trying to elevate my presence on social media. I’ve been doing it in two ways. One way is through Twitter, where I’ve been sharing a lot of articles from this blog and some of my other blogs over and over. I’ve tried to pick what I consider are […]

Suffice it to say that over the last 4 weeks I’ve had an adventure in trying to get my media package changed from Time Warner to Verizon. Initially it was all Verizon’s fault, although I think it all could have been handled much differently. Then Wednesday night it was Time Warner’s fault; I won’t go […]

How quickly things change. It was only 3 years ago that I was spending Christmas totally by myself. My wife was working out of town and couldn’t come home, my mother was sharing Christmas with others, and my grandmother had passed away months earlier. It was kind of a sad and lonely Christmas day, and […]

Before writing this article I decided to take a quick look back through the 1,140 or so articles on this blog to see how many times I used the word “failure”. It seems I’ve only used it 28 times ever, and as it regards the concept of actually failing, only once, and that’s if I […]