Ten Life Lessons From Doctor Who

are you my mummy?

I bought a new pair of shoes a couple weeks ago. They’ve been a tremendous help to my sanity. They’re just a pair of plain Converse sneakers to most people, but to me and a few of you, there is a special significance to this brand of shoes. Because Converse sneakers, like a bow tie, [...]

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Time and Money: A Parable

When I was ten years old, I fell into a small windfall of sorts. I had won a contest at school and was about to walk into a long summer with more cash than I ever had in my life. A whopping twenty dollars. Imagine that. I don’t recall what the contest was for, but [...]

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5 Ways to Deal with Setbacks

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Setbacks are an important part of life. They are especially a part of trying anything new, a part of our growth as human beings, a part of the human condition. If there is any skill most worthwhile, it is learning from setbacks. Setbacks are not Failures The difference between a setback and failure is just [...]

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Being Out of Sync

Being synchronized has two connotations for me. First is what I imagine most people think of when they talk about being either in sync or out of sync: that is “synchronization.” It is, at least to me, a world of Newtonian clockworks, a vast system of gears, levers and pulleys that keep the world and [...]

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The Irrelevance of Television Culture

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What are your primary sources of news and information? I use several. Online, primarily, I use Twitter. I also subscribe by email to the RSS feeds of a handful of online publications. I’ll use Google News to dig into more information if I need it. On weekends, I will read a newspaper or magazine like [...]

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How Guy Kawasaki Enchanted Me

If you don’t have an internet connection, there may be a chance you’ve never heard of Guy Kawasaki. For the rest of the world, he’s pretty much pervasive, the founder (or co-founder) of Alltop.com, Guy is also perhaps the most-recognized individual on Twitter. He posts links about every seven minutes on the strangest, funniest, most [...]

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Before Walking Away

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February can be a harsh month. For me personally, this February more so than most years. February has never been a particularly good friend in the best of times, but if there is ever a setback in February, there is seldom much kindness to be found. Outside, it is cold and icy. Inside, the rooms [...]

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Why Being Single Sucks

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I fell in love last week. Her name is Julia. I discovered that she was on a dating website, and I actually considered logging on, creating an account, and paying a few bucks to find her. Yeah, seriously. And I don’t do “the dating thing”. So there I was, weighing my principals against this sudden [...]

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PTV – Poetry on Video

I had some unexpected time today so I had a chance to play around with my recent poem, Launching Rockets, and put some film clips together for a new video. All the images and clips are public domain, except the rolling clouds, which I found at StockFootageForFree and downloaded free of charge. I recorded the [...]

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Launching Rockets

This recent poem seems to be pretty well self-explanatory. I’m not sure yet how I feel about it. I’m not even sure if this is really a poem, or just an expanded question. Launching Rockets The road behind us is paved with atrocities. We circle and circle, our destination and our centre unknown. Ourselves, we [...]

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