Personally, professionally, and academically, this has been a crazy week. This is one of those weeks that makes you pause and just realize how crazy life can get at times. Luckily, all of it is positive and looking great. Just absolutely crazy hectic with little time to pause. When these times occur, I seek out some refuge to take stock of recent events and make sure I do not take things for granted. For example, I completed a kickboxing class…
For much of my life success was about accumulating more money and possessions than those around me. In reality, it was not a healthy or even true definition of success for my life. It was a mistake to allow myself to operate under its influence for such a long time. Well over a decade ago, I realized that I needed to stop trying to live up to other people’s definition of success and define it for myself. Now, I define…
An elephant never forgets? Forget that. Try getting something pulled off-line when you really need it to go away. As you will quickly find out, it is nearly impossible to remove information completely off of the Internet once it has been posted. The Internet is such a distributed network with caching and proxy servers all over the world that once information is posted online it is part of that information collective and extremely difficult to sanitize (make it disappear permanently.)…
I am certainly no gardening expert, but my little tomatoes and bell peppers plants are getting completely eaten alive. The green foliage looks like Swiss cheese, and as a complete novice gardener, I am considering using the most toxic form of pesticide that I can legally purchase. Of course being a responsible human, husband, and father I do try to avoid going to extremes…sometimes. So the rational side of my mind, my wife and kids, came to the rescue and went to…