Flashbacks
The Origin & Story of the Thunder Turkey
You’ve likely heard a couple of different variations on the origin of human beings and life on Earth. Many have been taught that God created all life on Earth and set the world we know in motion. For many others, you’ve followed science and believe that evolution kicked off the spark of life to bring … Continue reading
Meet Donna: The Voice of Criticism
If I have learned one thing over the years, it’s that somehow writing things out does help. If you go back through the history of posts on this blog, you’ll find many long rants of mine where I just vent out whatever happens to be on my mind at the time. I talk about my … Continue reading
The Power of Music, Part II – Emotion
In August of last year I wrote an article about how music has influenced me throughout my life. Tonight, after watching a bunch of live shows from Faith No More on YouTube, I thought I’d continue the discussion on music. For this post, I’ll be focusing on how music has a very emotional effect on … Continue reading
The Power of Music, Part I – Influence
This article is part of a series of blog posts about music and it’s influences on us. In part 1, I talk about how a particular band and even more so their lead singer, contributed to my teenage years and how it’s even affected me as an adult. The earliest music I can ever remember … Continue reading
Digging Through Old Drawers
I told Tamara earlier today that I wanted to get some writing done so after the kids went to bed, I sat at the table and did a little writing. Mind you, it wasn’t the kind of writing she had in mind as it was a song we had talked about earlier that I was … Continue reading
The Repercussions of a Blog Post
On January 20th, 2006, I was finishing up a class as 5pm was getting closer when one of the office admins came by my classroom and asked me to go see my boss when class was over. My students left, I packed up my stuff and went to see my boss. I sat in a … Continue reading
My Other Life
It’s almost bedtime for the kids so we’re sitting at the table as they are having a little snack before bed. My son Dylan looks at me and asks me to tell him something about myself that he didn’t know. The first thing that comes to mind is a huge revelation which I have not … Continue reading
The Toronto Story
It’s been an interesting week here in Houston because the wifi in the hotel really blows so I have been having to fill my time with other things to do. I’ve been working on a series of stories about some of my travel and spent the last two days finally finishing the revisions on a … Continue reading
Researching Stripper Names
Since March of last year, I have slowly been writing down a bunch of tales about some of the travel I have done over the years. It’s been a project that I pick at from time to time and I have no idea if I will ever try and get it published, but I’ve really … Continue reading
I wasn’t really a “hacker” per ce
My friend Paul asked me if I could help him rip some CDs he’s had laying around. He didn’t have a CD drive as those are hard to come by these days. Having an old laptop laying around, I offered to do the ripping for him. So here I am, in my kitchen at the table, … Continue reading
