“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;” – If, Rudyard Kipling Once upon a time a woman asked me “what kind of car would you get that would signify that you’ve made it?” I think this woman had a high-end Mustang at the time but her […]
1Dec24
The Measure of Success
14Aug24
I’m Great, Thanks For Asking
A quick note, To the person who told me I’d end up in jail. To the person who told me I’d always be a loser. To the person who held a shotgun to my head. To the person who told me I was irredeemably selfish. To the person who told me that I would just […]
4May23
Music Is My Friend
All I want is to keep on trucking, I think I could with a little bit of luck. Come too far to just get stuck, So I refuse to die. – Sydney Sprague I think many of my favorite songs are aspirational. They often describe people I wish I had in my life. Those times […]
12Apr12
Forever Starts Now
I used to think I was a decent guy. I didn’t know the truth of it until I found myself in a situation where I had every reason to be rotten to a person who mistreated me, I knew I wouldn’t get caught, and still chose to be a decent guy. I used to believe […]
There are dead people in my address book. I just can’t bring myself to delete them. For friends and family that are no longer here, it’s like a digital tombstone sitting on my disk drive. Here’s their last phone number; their last address; their birthday. It’s never been easy for me to let go, and […]
13Jul09
No-Go For Launch
I’ve set a personal record of a sort. I’ve gone through an entire year without visiting the east coast of Florida before, but now I’ve managed to drive over there 4 times in the space of a single month. I’ve never made so many cross-state trips in such a short timeframe. One trip was to […]
28Jun09
Paths Not Taken
I spent Saturday on the east coast of Florida. I made a quick stop in Miami’s South Beach to watch the sun come up: After that I drove up to Palm Beach County to check out all of the places there that I used to live. I’d been over to that area exactly once since […]