5 Tips for Surviving Awkward Conversations

No high-falutin’ head-in-the-clouds speculatin’ in this post. Nope, this gets into the nitty-gritty of what it’s really like to love, which means, on occasion, you have to have one of those conversations. You know, theone where you say (or are told) We…

Incre-Mentality

So back to that discussion I was having on my front lawn about goal-setting (it was a great discussion; got at least three blog post topics out of it! This is number two). As I mentioned, we were talking about my desire to create not just blog posts and short fiction and scintillating rhetorical…

Bad Practice #1: Self-Deprecation

I think, for a shift of gears, we’re going to focus once a month on Bad Practices. These will be things that we do that become ingrained habits, perhaps with the best of intentions but with less-than-optimal results.

All the Things

If you want one surefire way to boost your web traffic, then there’s nothing better than picking some very popular meme and making…

Manipulating Story

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. — Robert McKee

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Cautious Winds

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Ordinary Love

It’s been hard to hold back from posting the thoughts I have around Brené Brown’s TEDx Kansas City talk on the price of invulnerability.

Loved and Lost

“I have to write a blog about love today,” I told the other three men in the car. “Any thoughts?”

I thought this a rare opportunity, to be honest. Based on appearance, we were all about the same demographic; in reality, two came from big families, two were married, two were…

Enough

I’ve Had Enough

That’s a tricky word, “enough.” Like certain swear words, it’s used in so many positive and negative connotations. One of the biggest is the way it’s used to feed guilt, for example. As a single Dad, undereducated and for many years part of the “working poor,” I…

What If It Worked?

Hóka-héy, today is a good day to die!
- Crazy Horse, Sioux warrior,
as translated from the traditional Klingon

The other night I had a very, very atypical dream. It was a remarkably realistic one, too — when I woke from it, I was surprised to find that I was in Hawaii…

Ain’t Nuthin’ But a Rock

Before I sought enlightenment, the mountains were mountains and the rivers were rivers.
While I sought…